#sever

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cause #condoms #crisis #doctors #having

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#injustice #law #severest #sometimes #strictest

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#being #disparate #i #several #thrive

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#alert #changes #constantly #control #every

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #been #disaster #enough #i

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted