Severe Quotes
Severe Quote of the day
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.
Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.
I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.