Severity Quotes - Page 5

• I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Light, Air, Perfect

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 640

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• It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

  Hugh Blair

  Pride, World, Offense

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• From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, People, Perspective

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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• I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see,
  there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Two, Echoes, Years

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• For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.

  Annie Leonard

  Data, Common Sense, People

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• I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Humble, Men, Land

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Age, Use

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

  Robert Peel

  Said, Northern Ireland, Provocation

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• Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.

  Zicheng Hong

  Kindness, People, Generosity

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• I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

  Louis Aragon

  Book, People, Style

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• Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Population, Caregivers

  Source: www.who.int

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• Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Women, Dresses

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• The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Father, Order, Delicacy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 5,

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• That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

  Hosea Ballou

  Compassion, Punishment, Discipline

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• Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

  John Ruskin

  Hurt, Fall, Heart

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.14

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• Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

  Joseph Addison

  Fables, Instruction

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.24

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• Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.

  Thomas Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

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• If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Mind, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Judging, Ends, Falsehood

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Anger, Saint, Excess

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Anger, Wine, Order

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• Summer has set in with its usual severity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, July, Usual

  Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826

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