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Quotes About Severity

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.
~ Yann Martel
For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.
~ Hippocrates
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
~ Hippocrates
Here's what we know right now: the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States are among the unvaccinated. In almost every study suggests the vaccine reduces severity and death from COVID.
~ Will Cain
if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:
~ Jeremy Bentham
If we can see the true seriousness of our sin, we will no longer object to God's supposed severity but marvel at His mercy.
~ Unknown
There it was: the tactless severity of vital male youth, not a single doubt about his coherence, blind with self-confidence and the virtue of knowing what matters most. The ruthless sense of necessity. The annihilating impulse in the face of an obstacle. Those grand grandstand days when you shrink from nothing and you're only right. Everything is a target; you're on the attack; and you, and you alone, are right.
~ Philip Roth
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it." – Chloe Traeger
~ Jill Shalvis
Penny: PROBLEM. Spider in the clean laundry basket and now it's gone. I have to burn down the house. Gray: No. Penny: You're not grasping the severity of this situation. The spider is huge and it's going to eat the cat. Gray: Then the spider will rightfully take our cat's place and become our beloved spider cat. Penny: This is on you. And remember that thing I said you could do to me tonight? It's off the table.
~ Jill Shalvis
Breakdowns are your greatest breakthroughs. Rank the severity, and know this is the quantity of the spectacular gift you'll receive on the other side. You planned it all perfectly.
~ Unknown
The thicker, the sicker.
~ Unknown
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
~ Voltaire
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.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own and is not shared with the body.
~ Plato
For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.
~ Letitia James
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
~ Alphonse Karr
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
~ Jean Racine
One thing about Covid-19 is clear: We don't fully understand its severity and transmission. At various turns, we've both underestimated and overestimated the virus.
~ Scott Gottlieb
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
~ Louis Aragon
A Columbia University study identified fifteen hundred children who had been assessed and diagnosed with ADHD. Within two years, over 50 percent of the children had lost their diagnosis. In other words, the severity of their symptoms no longer met the criteria for this disorder.
~ Unknown
They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!
~ Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
REFERENCE RANGES FOR GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (GFR) GFR (mL/min) Severity of Kidney Damage 90 to 120 with no evidence of kidney damage Normal Greater than 90 with evidence of kidney damage Stage 1 (Beginning of kidney damage) 60 to 89 Stage 2 (Mild kidney damage) 30 to 59 Stage 3 (Moderate kidney damage) 15 to 29 Stage 4 (Severe kidney damage) Less than 15 Stage 5 (Kidney failure)
~ James B. LaValle
This disease is no joke, to be made light of, but a terrible calamity pg 36
~ John M. Barry
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...
~ Frederick Seitz