Severity Quotes

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The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. — Al Gore
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that… — Joyce Meyer
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. — Baron de Montesquieu
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from… — Quintilian
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. — David Suzuki
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
Say â€œnoâ€ only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay.… — Gretchen Rubin
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. — Hermann Hesse
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. — David Sheff
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short… — Charlotte Bronte
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.â€ â€“ Chloe Traeger — Jill Shalvis
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing… — Charles Dickens
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at… — Veronica Roth
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture… — Henri Matisse
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. — Samuel Johnson
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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