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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am an austere president. -- Jose Mujica
I'm not an austere person. -- Paul Farmer
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. -- Frederick Soddy
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. -- Riccardo Muti
I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. -- Corbin Bernsen
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. -- Sally Phillips
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. -- Alexander Herzen
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. -- Havelock Ellis
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. -- Jonathan Miller
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. -- Bernard Tschumi
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year. -- Arlen Specter
My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play. -- Charles Dance
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. -- Lincoln Ellsworth
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano. -- John Mahoney
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. -- Annie Besant
In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era. -- Chris Riddell
Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular. -- Pankaj Mishra
And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe. -- George Martin
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. -- E. T. Bell
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis. -- Sebastian Horsley
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days. -- Geraldine Brooks
When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew. -- Evan Osnos
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade. -- Jerry Saltz
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop. -- Tim Curry
The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous. -- Paul Weller
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. -- Ansel Adams
With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world. -- Frank Moore Cross
What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? -- Robert Hayden
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. -- Eugene Delacroix
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things. -- Frederick Lenz
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. -- Ambrose Bierce
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain. -- Helen Waddell
The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity. -- Ayn Rand
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. -- Elinor Wylie
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection. -- Walter Savage Landor
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Scienceâ?¦ Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy -- Thomas Carlyle
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. -- Bertrand Russell
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline. -- Benito Mussolini
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman. -- Carolyn Heilbrun

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