#severe

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. ↗

— Kathryn Hulme

#friends #god #his #lukewarm #more

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#moral #politician #severe #thing #true

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#chooses #cope #every #facilitate #find

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #countries #high #illness #immediately

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#contracted #far #ills #mind #more

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#caps #demand #devastating #disaster #disasters

Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#communities #demands #even #experienced #financial

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#ferocious #i #lives #more #much