Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked… — David E. Hilton Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. — Eleanor Porter Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a… — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
