Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter

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.

Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi

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.

Charles Dance
Charles Dance

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.

Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell

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.

Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell

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.

Elinor Wylie
Elinor Wylie

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.

Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos

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.