Severe Quotes

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

I never worry about the social backlash against my work because I'm a man in a dress, and somehow American society creates a buffer on how severe things are when you put a man in a dress.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

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.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.