“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve… — Pope Francis 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
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley 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 respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty… — Ansel Adams 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
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
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
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 things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to… — Robin Boyd 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
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image