Severe Quotes - Page 20

• Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Be Kind, Kind, Thyself

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Mother, Progress, Events

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• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Mean, Tv News

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Teaching, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  John Calvin

  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

  Mohammed Mahdi Akef

  Country, Islamic, Suffering

  "Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi 'Akef: Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology 'For Military Purposes'". MemriTV, June 2006.

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

  Frank Buckles

  Jobs, Driving, Ambulance

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

  Daphne Oz

  Water, Gone, Weight

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Rights, Suffering

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• Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Boys, Men, Public Opinion

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.522

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• 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

  School, Class, Design

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• God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

  Ernest Legouve

  Promise, Tears, Serious

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• There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

  Sax Rohmer

  Tolls, Anticipation, Nervous

  Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

  Edward Thomson

  Preparation, Important, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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• Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Happiness, Light, Graves

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

  Pete Domenici

  Gasoline Prices, Tolls, Today

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• 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.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Thinking, Doctors, Years

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horse, Loss, Men

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• Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.

  Strabo

  Cities, Egypt, Class

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• [Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Gay, People, Facts

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