Severe Quotations

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder?

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

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

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too.

It is evident that it is the belief of Christian people in this country and in all other enlightened portions of the world that as a nation, we have passed through a severe ordeal - that severe judgments have been poured out upon us on account of the manner in which a poor, oppressed race was treated in this country.

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.

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.

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

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

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

Nearly 30 percent of adults aged 75 and older have one or more disabilities in performing basic activities of daily living. Additionally, of the more than 2.3 million older adults with severe disability, 84 percent receive some form of public health insurance. We wanted to find out what might be done to help this group more effectively.

Oh yeah, sure. There are degrees of sprains and we've had three or four of them this year already and guys come back and play. But you don't know until you get a few days away as to how severe it is.

Monica: Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

Police officers who ignore or brush off a plea for help violate their oath to this city and deserve severe and decisive punishment, ... But what is important is that the NYPD has moved swiftly against those members that violated department policy, and instituted the changes that will prevent the recurrence of future incidents.

Please remember we're talking about a test that we agree to do that we do on our own. It's not a required test. That's a very, very severe test. It's a high-speed test, it's designed to take tires right up to their limits, ... If we don't have tires that fail tests, then what value are they?

People who are compromised in immunity can sometimes develop severe infections with these bacteria. It does not represent an outbreak.

Obviously, if there are severe price spikes and severe shortages, we would want to take a look at whether a government response

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

If we're just experiencing some minor snow covering secondary roads, we'll switch several officers to our severe weather vehicles. The remainder will stay in their standard vehicles and handle service calls as usual.

There are true risks when ... enough peanut protein is really being disturbed. So if people are cracking open peanuts, especially in a confined space, a waiting area of a restaurant, you could have a very severe reaction because there's enough peanut airborne there.

The plane tried to land at National but experienced severe wind, and the pilot did what we call an aborted approach.

Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.

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.

Most of the wheat, except that in far northwest Kansas, was in the early boot to heading stages of growth at the time of the freezes. Damage can be especially severe if the freeze occurred in the late boot to flowering stages, but wheat can also be injured by a hard freeze at other growth stages.

(She has a) severe blow to the head. She has a broken jaw, broken pelvis. They basically left my wife for dead. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love. I can't see no love right now.

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point.

She had an amazing figure and her clothes were very severe and elegant.

Several factors are expected to come together Friday creating the potential for severe weather.

Severe is almost an understatement. It's going to be devastating.

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

Severe operating challenges still confront GM, including mix, pricing and market-share pressures plus a tough macro outlook as consumers face rising interest rates and energy costs.

Severe weather conditions and uncertainty over interest rates may help explain why the rise in the indicators was cut short.

Severe winter weather in the Russian and Caspian geo-markets curtailed activity significantly for a three-week period in January.

Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.

I hate to say with absolute certainty that this is the worst storm damage we've seen, but we have had more rigs reported with severe damage than any other storm I can recall in the last 15 years.

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

(Jade) was diagnosed with severe mold induced asthma.

has little scope to cushion the immediate economic fallout from such a severe and sudden blow to a region.

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.

I feel like I have really done my job today under these severe conditions. Driving was tricky, almost like a gamble. It required a real combination of car-control and self-control. But in the end it worked well.

If a person has a flea infestation, it is time to call a professional pest control company to treat the problem quickly and effectively. If someone has a severe reaction to flea bites, they should take precaution and seek immediate medical attention.

I don't think it's going to happen, and I don't think baseball wants it to happen. I think baseball would be inviting congressional ? possibly severe congressional ? response to it. They also would have to negotiate the effects of contraction with the players union.

I don't think it's going to have a huge impact on the third quarter. Going forward, if it (euro) stays here, the impact could be much more severe next quarter. It's that way with all the problems we're having with earnings.

I expect that Katrina will have very severe economic impacts because it will force consumers to increase expenditures on energy drastically,

If adopted the actions recommended to the president would drastically reduce U.S. steel imports with severe implications for both the EU and third countries,

Certainly he should have been taken to a hospital and he wasn't. Certainly, people do survive severe burns, but they need to get to a burn center. In this case that care was deliberately denied.

Certainly I am also here to learn about the problems of the country today and especially the problems of very severe poverty.

I felt like there should have been some severe ones and there were.

Because of the chances of severe crushing injuries, standard dental records are not very good, ... because they're based on all your teeth being in the right place.

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

Because of the severe beatings he had taken, his right buttocks looked like a purple volleyball, and there was so much swelling some of the skin literally died. Imagine a 3-by-3 (inch) area and all of the skin taken off down to the fatty tissue.

Having been around audits for a number of years, there was nothing particularly outstanding in the audit that I would consider to be a severe deficiency, ... Some things need to be changed, and they will be.

Here's an innocent cat inflicted with a severe injury. The callers care about what happens to this cat.

What is clear is that the damage caused by ever more severe and frequent weather events...ripples across the economy to the eventual detriment of shareholders.

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

Her severe brain injury has caused a lack of verbal communication along with visual and perceptual impairments, ... But she still seems determined to get back to where she was.

We've found about 200 road-rage deaths over a period of several years, compared to the 17,000 a year caused by drunk driving. Some states are considering pretty severe penalties, trying to rewrite laws so that road rage has some specific legal consequences. We're not sure that's appropriate.

I also believe the financial backers (of the tribes) may now have very severe second thoughts, ... throwing good money after bad.

Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Orleans and devastating other coastal areas. She also dealt a severe body blow to consumer confidence across the board.

Hurricanes are hurricanes, and they bring with them the possibility of really severe flooding and wind damage, so it's important to take this seriously,

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.

we must have an advance warning and crisis management system on urban violence that is as effective as the one against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

If the economy turns down we may have more severe credit problems.

If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be followed.

He's coming off a very, very severe injury. He's farther ahead physically, as far as playing through it, than I thought he would be, ... You consider it was less than a year ago that he was laying on the field at Lambeau, and we were wondering whether he can play again. There's a lot of things involved there.

He had some severe pains. He had to take some medication for it, so we just told him to go home and get some sleep, and get ready to go tomorrow.

He had a reputation as a very severe disciplinarian, but he hasn't lived up to this. He has been listening a lot and thinking about the future of the Church. It has been a good start.

History has shown that severe weather does not discriminate, and everyone should be prepared to address any type of disaster. If we can educate our school-age population, they can help us promote awareness at home.

Historically there has not been a great rate of return on airline stocks for investors, which is why they have always traded at a severe discount to the markets. And there is no guarantee that the government is going to approve on all these mergers, which lends an air of caution to investing in the sector.

The pain level is as severe as anything the market has ever inflicted on investors before,

Unless we have some unforeseen circumstance -- another terrorist attack, a severe dip in the economy -- I think there is going to be an upswing in the airline business.

He's been put on the concussion program again, but the first one was so severe I think the program may go longer. There's no set time on when he can be back or when he can even resume practice. Symptom-free for a week doesn't necessarily mean he can have contact again. That could take weeks.