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
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
While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving… — John Milton 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
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite… — William James 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
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
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens 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
Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame… — Winston Churchill 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
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president--and it's set out expressly in the Constitution--is that the president is to take… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
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