(51 quotes found)
“Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.”
St. Teresa of Avila
“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.”
Jan Morris
“Howard Stern is a business. Sirius is paying, in essence, a license fee for what is a large and successful business.”
Craig Moffett
“They want me to copy Howard [Stern]. But I refuse to regiment this show. ... I told them I would quit if they will not let me do what I was hired to do, which is create something unique.”
David Lee Roth
“I really like Jin. I don't think he's the hard, stern character that he was initially laid out to be. I think he's very complex. I think he's very human.”
Daniel Dae Kim
“He could be very stern with you, but when he was being stern, he felt like that was good for you. If you had done something stupid, he wouldn't mind pointing it out and that's good for you.”
Cliff Hapgood
“It is a pretty stern test, ... You have to keep it down the middle because of the rough.”
David Howell
“Ms. Cherry was known for running a very stern ship. They probably feared for their own if they disobeyed her.”
Wilfredo Ortiz
“Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.”
William McFee