Quotes About Sternness

#1. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

Oswald Chambers

#2. He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.

Thomas Keneally

#3. The vase was a solid, dark green stone carved into plain surfaces; the texture of its smooth curves provoked an irresistible desire to touch it. It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.

Ayn Rand

#4. In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.

Charles Dickens

#6. The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

Jane Addams

#7. Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.

Sun Tzu

#9. I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.

Matthew Pearl

#10. I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the
sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. Miss Taggart," he said, with an odd note of sternness in his voice, "just remember that he represented a code of existence which - for a brief span in all human history - drove slavery out of the civilized world. Remember it, when you feel baffled by the nature of his enemies.

Ayn Rand

#12. she exclaimed with all the anxiety of a worried mother, the sternness of an academy principal, and the relief of a farmer feeling spring's first rain on his skin. Her

Charlie N. Holmberg

#13. The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#14. I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

Tim McGraw

#15. His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.

William Barclay

#16. The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

Herbert Spencer

#17. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Saint Augustine

#18. Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

William Wordsworth

#19. A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#21. Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#22. The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral ... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Nikolai Gogol

#23. To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Nhat Hanh

#24. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Lev Grossman

#25. Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Sebastian Bach

#26. Well?"
"Well, what?"
"Damn it, Nathan, tell me what you think."
"About what?"
"Lady Sara," Colin persisted. "What do you think of her?"
"The truth, Colin?"
His friend gave a quick nod.
Nathan's smile was slow, easy. "She'll fit through the window.

Julie Garwood

#27. And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Edgar Allan Poe

#28. There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled.

Jim Henson

#29. The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Lou Reed

#30. There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Thomas Carlyle

#31. The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

Arthur Conan Doyle