#severe

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ↗

— Lord Byron

#codes #devils #hell #help #humanity

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#business #crisis #cycle #downturn #economies

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doubt #easily #either #endured #pain

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#comes #comparatively #difficult #discipline #experience

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#cannot #cultural #good #influence #marriage

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. ↗

— Voltaire

#sad #severe #who #wise

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#chronic #conditions #crippling #depression #disorder