#sever

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold? ↗

— Shirley Booth

#air #always #any #cold #crisis

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#because #completely #go #happened #i

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#came #careers #cosmetics #did #i

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#ankle #because #before #broken #during

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#branches #carry #congress #continued #every

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#severest #silence #sometimes

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. ↗

— William Carey

#definite #everything #i #i can #owe