In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the… — William James Copy Share Image
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen… — Theodore O'Hara Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile Copy Share Image
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United… — Charles A. Beard 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
If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people… — David Attenborough 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