Quotes of: Severe Keyword

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Ellen Bass

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Robert Walpole

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

Buffalo Bill

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

Felicity Jones

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

Hans Rosling

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Irwin Shaw

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Jorge Luis Borges

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Dennis Ritchie

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

Donna Rice

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

Diane Watson

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Byron Katie

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell