Severe Quotes - Page 20

• The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

  Mohammed Mahdi Akef

  Country, Islamic, Suffering

  "Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi 'Akef: Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology 'For Military Purposes'". MemriTV, June 2006.

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

  Frank Buckles

  Jobs, Driving, Ambulance

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

  Daphne Oz

  Water, Gone, Weight

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Rights, Suffering

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

  Ernest Legouve

  Promise, Tears, Serious

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• There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

  Sax Rohmer

  Tolls, Anticipation, Nervous

  Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

  Edward Thomson

  Preparation, Important, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

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• The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Common Sense, Quality, Levels

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.113, Indiana University Press

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• ...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Past, Judging

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.

  David Hume

  War, Loss, Luxury

  David Hume (1751). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.30

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Real, Thinking

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• When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

  Allan Hamilton

  Spiritual, Opportunity, People

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• Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Broken, Mind, Trials

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• It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

  Walter Scott

  Enemy, Religion, Looks

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• The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

  H. G. Wells

  Mother, Father, Men

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• To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, People, Hypocrisy

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• Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Heart, People, Joy

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• Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

  Wayne Dyer

  Anger, Frustration, Choices

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• At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Hope, Disappointment, Discipline

  Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in "The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition" by Gerda Lerner, Editorial Oxford University Press, (p. 241), 1998.

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• Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.

  Benjamin Haydon

  One Direction, Views, Enemy

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• A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Art, Inspiration, Hard Work

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