Severely Quotes

#1. I've broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn't believe I didn't shatter my femur.

Robbie Amell

#2. You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Charles Stewart Parnell

#3. By the time this damn war's over, we'll have hundreds of thousands of severely traumatized soldiers trying to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Kristin Hannah

#4. I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.

Michael McDowell

#5. Jefferson's extraordinary efforts to defend the rights of neutrals to trade freely drove the country into a deep depression and severely damaged his presidency. He ended up violating much of what he and his party stood for.

Gordon S. Wood

#6. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. ...I'm severely allergic to unsolicited monologue performances in public. While they don't cause sneezing or hives, when exposed, I do experience extreme and immediate vaginal dryness.

Sara Barron

#8. We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

Heinz Guderian

#9. What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us
And urge us to futile activity,
And in the end, Judge us still more severely,
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

T. S. Eliot

#10. There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Peter King

#11. Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

Ralph Marston

#12. Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.

Sue Patton Thoele

#13. Not only are islands impoverished relative to the mainlands, but small islands are more severely impoverished than large ones. That bit of insight became famed as the species-area relationship.

David Quammen

#14. He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

Charles Dickens

#15. A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane.
They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

Rick Mercer

#16. Well, they're splendid to amuse children with," said Diana. "Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour." "I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton's catalogue," said Mrs. Rachel severely.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

Takafumi Horie

#18. If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

Stephen Fry

#19. She'd also prepared by wearing her hair combed back severely from her face, and putting on her stiffest, highestcollared business suit. She all but carried a riding crop.

Suzanne Brockmann

#20. The whole point of a top secret invisible guard," Deathbringer said severely, "is for them to be invisible and secret. Therefore it is extremely unhelpful for certain queens to go pointing them out and discussing them loudly with the entire rainforest.

Tui T. Sutherland

#21. We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

Faye Wattleton

#22. As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Barry Eichengreen

#23. The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.

Safak Pavey

#24. On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Terry Pratchett

#25. One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert

#26. Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the One who loved you enough to give it to you.

Wm. Paul Young

#28. A human being is not mindless or mentally deficient without language, but he is severely restricted in the range of his thoughts, confined, in effect, to an immediate, small world.

Oliver Sacks

#29. I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

April Winchell

#30. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Tom Lantos

#31. Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage - every one of them.

Esther Hicks

#32. I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

Daniel Pipes

#33. The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

#34. Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Russell Banks

#35. When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Eva Longoria

#36. Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Frank Zappa

#37. I am inclined to think
" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#38. Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

Andrew Johnson

#39. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

#40. If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

Paget Brewster

#41. Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#42. The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

Willa Cather

#43. I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Adrienne Rich

#44. The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#45. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black

Joseph Conrad

#46. We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Judd Gregg

#47. Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

Eugene H. Peterson

#48. It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

Paracelsus

#49. When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

Rusty Schweickart

#50. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Roald Dahl

#51. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard J. Needham

#52. I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.

Uday Hussein

#53. A proper bond between two people is severely damaged if the process is rushed.

James C. Dobson

#54. Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.

Tony Horwitz

#55. What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Robert Nozick

#56. Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Kathryn Hulme

#57. It is a fact - I say this from experience - that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.

Scott Stossel

#58. Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

Morrissey

#59. Haley Joel Osment said "Party girl" which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached.

Tao Lin

#60. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.

Brene Brown

#61. Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.

Arnold Weinstock

#62. I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

Colleen Hoover

#63. I will not make you a pastrami, banana bread, cottage cheese sandwich! That would severely ruin my reputation.

Mitch Hedberg

#64. Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

Lisa Kleypas

#65. People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.

Errol Morris

#66. A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

B.F. Skinner

#67. The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible.

Benjamin Graham

#68. I did not expect this of you,' said the staff-captain seriously and severely. 'You don't wish to apologize, young sir, but it's not only to him but to the whole regiment - all of us - you're to blame all around. The

Leo Tolstoy

#69. Some people talk about "finding God," but that seemed like a severely inaccurate description of what I was experiencing. It felt more like God was finding me. He wasn't the lost one - I was. I

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#70. Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#71. Your amoral ingenuity in the pursuit of your interest is perfectly shocking," said Zacharias severely. "Yes, isn't it?" said Prunella, pleased.

Zen Cho

#72. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Brian Jacques

#73. The Uberlingen Chief of Police Jakob Graf, was severely wounded in this explosion. It has now become questionable as to whether the weapons he collected were for the Gestapo or the invading French troops.

Hank Bracker

#74. The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

Charles Hodge

#75. You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.

Susanna Clarke

#76. My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

Shanna Moakler

#77. I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

John Sulston

#78. Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

Maya Angelou

#79. The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

Isaac Asimov

#80. While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

Kathleen Hanna

#81. I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Elizabeth I

#82. If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

Evgeny Morozov

#83. The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.

Anatol Rapoport

#84. There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Irving Kirsch

#85. I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Chris Rock

#86. With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

#87. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely binjured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

Anonymous

#88. I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#89. I don't think anyone could ever criticize me more severely than the way I viciously criticize myself.

Unknown

#90. I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

Trent Reznor

#91. My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

Mary Tyler Moore

#92. What I thought we might have a conversation about, is basically I do math, sir, not clandestine operations that severely deplete my mental resources.

Suzanne Stroh

#93. You have dimples in your cheeks and a cleft in your chin."
"My mother dropped me on my face as a child. I'm severely dented. What can I say?

Amy Harmon

#94. It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Herbert Hoover

#95. The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

Paulo Coelho

#96. In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Elinor Ostrom

#97. There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

Robert Nozick

#98. You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#99. Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child ... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

D.H. Lawrence

#100. True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

Ellen G. White