Quotes About Severity

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

more primal layers of creativity I yearn for, and at the same time, taking me down to an irreducible essence, all the way to the severity of my own dying. Down to the gnawed bone.

Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself.

a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.

When at last the Childlike Empress looked up, the expression of her face had changed. Atreyu was almost frightened at its grandeur and severity. He knew where he had once seen that expression: in the sphinxes.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

You shall be led from hence to the place whence you came…and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off and thrown into the fire before your eyes.

In 1649 the laws were tightened even further—to the extent that swearing at a parent became punishable by death.

It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.

Cotton manufacturers understood that their prosperity was entirely dependent on the labor of slaves and they "dreaded the severity of the revulsion which must sooner, or later arrive.

What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don't "fix it" by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequacies and smallness. Shame is more likely to be the cause of these behaviors, not the cure.

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

Cu cât mai mare este fragilitatea cuiva,cu atat mai mare va fi si precau?ia lui ?i cu atât mai crâncen? ?i de neclintit severitatea pe care o va arbora în fa?a avansurilor celuilalt.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

When threat is high but perceived efficacy is low, defensive reactions are likely, such as denying the severity of, or susceptibility to, the threat (e.g., disparaging government health warnings) (Goldenberg & Arndt, 2008). The risk needs to be perceived as credible (i.e., not over- or understated) and the preventive or protective measures also need to be perceived as credible.

Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

750 years old, and during that time the Great Plains had suffered twenty droughts similar in severity to the one under way in the 1930s.)

When deciding whether a message should be ERROR or WARN, imagine being woken up at 4 a.m. Low printer toner is not an ERROR.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.