Severely Quotes

#1. The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

Sherrod Brown

#2. Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

Peter Matthiessen

#3. But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.

Henry James

#4. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

John Calvin

#5. I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's

Burgandi Rakoska

#6. The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Susanne Bier

#7. One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We

Jonathan L Graf

#8. Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Douglas William Jerrold

#9. Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

Stephen Furst

#10. Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Will Thomas

#11. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams

#12. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

Garry Shandling

#13. Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Stephen Harper

#14. I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

Peter Hollingworth

#15. No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Barbara Tuchman

#16. I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Vicky Hartzler

#17. They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.

Elena Ferrante

#18. A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry
even if he is at a convenient height for it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#19. John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway.

Bill Bryson

#20. I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Camille Paglia

#21. [Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

Robin McKinley

#22. The most common genetic disorder caused by inbreeding is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA causes the death of the cells in the spinal cord, and is often fatal or severely disabling.

Randall Munroe

#23. A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

#24. The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.

Jim Butcher

#25. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#26. In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.

Jack Kerouac

#27. Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

David Ignatius

#28. If the Police could do a reunion ... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.

Steven Adler

#29. We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

Calamity Jane

#30. How in the ever loving fuck am I severely hung over and turned on at the same time? I didn't think that was possible.

Kristen Proby

#31. The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

Michael Specter

#32. The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.

William Barrett

#33. I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Campbell Scott

#34. CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things.
Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.
Sadie Kane

Rick Riordan

#35. There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

Peter Singer

#36. As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Ridley Pearson

#37. A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.

John Foxe

#38. I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."

Demetri Martin

#39. If parenting is the box of raisin bran, then real mothers know the ratio of flakes to fun is severely imbalanced.

Jodi Picoult

#40. Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely

L.M. Montgomery

#41. Life lesson that sucks? Giving advice is way easier than living your own life. Life lesson that sucks worse? Realizing this after you've severely fucked up.

Kristen Callihan

#42. In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Michael Eric Dyson

#43. To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Malachy McCourt

#44. NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

James Zogby

#45. My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#46. You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

Joyce Meyer

#47. When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

Byron Katie

#48. The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Dan Jenkins

#49. I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

Raha Moharrak

#50. The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

Mark Rutte

#51. It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#52. But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters

Dean Cavanagh

#54. Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

Rory Kinnear

#55. You obey, and you serve Allah - that is the test. If you submit to God's will on earth, you will attain bliss in the Hereafter. The rule is strict and pure. My doubts severely diminished my chances for eternal bliss, but I found that I couldn't ignore them. I had to resolve this. *

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#56. Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

Gene R. Cook

#57. You have something much more enduring than beauty," she said severely. "And what is that?" "Grace," she said simply. "Grace, and talent." I

S. Jae-Jones

#58. The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.

Paul Collier

#59. No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

Edmund A. Opitz

#60. Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.

Frederick Lenz

#61. A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

Helen Keller

#62. Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Ron Paul

#63. I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.

Thomas Jefferson

#64. Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.
'Why should I restrict myself so severely?

Neal Asher

#65. In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

#66. Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

Saint Augustine

#67. Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Peter Singer

#68. What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now.
He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.

Susan Hubbard

#69. Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

Suzy Kassem

#70. I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

Mitt Romney

#71. An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

Anthony Burgess

#72. I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#73. If I must know something in order to believe in it, what I am able to believe in will be severely limited. If I choose to believe in something in order to know it, then what I believe in can be boundless.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#74. He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

Barry Lyga

#75. Do Chinese dragons even eat people?" "She lives in the Bay Area," I say severely. "She eats a Westernized diet.

Courtney Milan

#76. The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

Edsger Dijkstra

#77. I'm severely conservative.

Mitt Romney

#78. It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.

Jules Verne

#79. There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

Elizabeth Peters

#80. You can do a great many things if you are rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor

Henry James

#81. Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

John Green

#82. There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

Gijs De Vries

#83. Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Edsger Dijkstra

#84. All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

Peter Singer

#85. If ever the amount of people getting struck by lightning increases dramatically, it will severely throw off the global measurement of probability.

Atticus

#86. The dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.

Gail Jones

#87. Severely bifurcated as he: someone who could be so utterly confident in some realms and so utterly despondent in others.

Hanya Yanagihara

#88. I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.

Kanye West

#89. Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all.

Temple Grandin

#90. When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Noam Chomsky

#91. Them Frenchies!'
'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.

Georgette Heyer

#92. There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#93. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

Paulo Coelho

#94. MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Donald Barthelme

#95. Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Mitch Hedberg

#96. In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

Jim Ryun

#97. He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another.

Thomas A Kempis

#98. The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

Eckhart Tolle

#99. You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#100. Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Murray Gell-Mann