#severe

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#executed #gentle #laws #obeyed #seldom

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#could #crazy #environment #exotic #had

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#dream #dreams #following-dreams #inspirational #overcome-fear

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#drawing #form #logic #more #reason

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#damaging #impression #iraq #muslim #muslim world

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#borders #compassion #continue #darkest #even

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature