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
It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to… — Joe Wilson Copy Share Image
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute… — Mark Shurtleff Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me.… — John Barlas Copy Share Image
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. — Count of St. Germain Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read.… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. — Molly Corbett Broad Copy Share Image
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol.… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
