#sever

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

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#assessment #available #based #current #decided

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#enjoy #freedom #i #invested #living

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#college #did #forgo #go #had

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appalled #fact #i #life #literally

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #between #block #building #building block

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#perseverance #photography #art

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ↗

— John Doolittle

#ago #been #bill #catch #end