The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be… — Francois-Noel Babeuf Copy Share Image
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of… — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I… — Carole Lombard Copy Share Image
“Together greet life's solemn real. Together own one glad ideal, Together laugh, together ache, And think one thought- "Each other's sake," And… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling,… — Mary Weston Fordham Copy Share Image
In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
