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Quotes About Severe

And from plunder and drunkenness to breaking out entirely and even to mutiny itself is not a terrible long way further. Mutinies always happen in ships where the discipline is either too lax or too severe.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Of the first million men screened by draft boards in 1940, at least 130,000 were rejected for severe disabilities relating to malnutrition.
~ Paul Dickson
I kept the letter those forty years as a talisman, as a goad, and as a rare example of the severe honesty of someone who seldom told the truth.
~ Paul Theroux
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.
~ Vittorio De Sica
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
~ William Saroyan
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
~ Cicero
My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash.
~ Hilary Mantel
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
~ Timothy Geithner
He will repeat it boldly (for it has been said before him), truths that form the basis of political and moral science are not to be discovered but by investigations as severe as mathematical ones, and beyond all comparison more intricate and extensive.
~ Jeremy Bentham
But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.
~ John McCain
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
~ Irving Penn
See Pitch over there? he asked, pointing with his chin. Try to get her to come to you. Pitch had wandered from the other horses, trying to get at the hay in the wagon's bed. My eyebrows rose, giving him a pained look. You mean, here, horsy, horsy, horsy... He gave me a severe look, but his eyes were glittering in a repressed amusement.
~ Unknown
With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,
~ Honore de Balzac
At any time, people suffering severe psychological distress that is not of organic or other biological origin "choose" from socially available and clinically reinforced modes.
~ Ian Hacking
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
~ Ibrahim Hooper
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
~ John Milton
I have to consider the honour of my house.' 'Honour?' Jaikie queried. 'Yes, honour,' said Ashie severely. 'Have you anything to say against it?' 'N-o-o. But it's an awkward word and apt to obscure reason.' 'It is a very real thing, which you English do not understand.' 'We understand it well enough, but we are shy of talking about it.
~ John Buchan
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.
~ Trevor Donovan
What was most important would have been love, the severe desire for the child, not to succeed, but to fearlessly engage in a world in which love is so fearfully exchanged.
~ Donald Miller
everyone felt some measure of relief. Drug trafficking was dealt a severe blow, though
~ John Grisham
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
~ John Keats