Quotes of: Severe Keyword

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer, many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.

Shackles of Honor

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

My Sister's Keeper

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

The Library at Night

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

Lunch Poems

Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

Short Money

I suck,” I said, after several minutes of uncomfortable silence into our drive. “Is that some kind of vampire joke?” Trey asked.

Silver Shadows

I used his severed hand as a murder weapon. I hope I didn’t get my fingerprints on his fingerprints.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no." His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ear to ear.

Psychic Skin Volume 2

Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

Pippi Longstocking

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

Pussy, King of the Pirates

The Mythical Mr. Boo has several eagle feathers, or “Freedom Feathers,” as he likes to call them, that he staples to his chest in protest of any kind of bloodshed.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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.

The Warrior's Apprentice

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

Mmhh! I have several ideas, but I don't know where to start.’ ‘You mean to hear me shout your name?’ ‘Yes, that's one of the ideas I have in mind.

Worthless

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

Zen in the Martial Arts

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

Antony Gormley

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

Avi Rubin

Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

David Kay