#severity

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #decades #global #global warming #impacts

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. ↗

— Terence

#into #led #paths #persuasion #right

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

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

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #his #injures #loaded #parent

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state. ↗

— Gray Davis

#doing #i #know #motives #negative

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear. ↗

— Steven Chu

#caribbean #countries #disappear #emissions #face

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #great #never #our #repent

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#canadian #cold #customary #did #dying

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#many #others #people #severity #think