Gravely Quotes
67 quotes by 61 authors
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
— Wendell Berry
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if…
— Laozi
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who…
— Robert C. Murphy
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Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)…
— Elmore Leonard
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
— Charles Dickens
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There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote…
— Elyn Saks
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She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
— Candice Millard
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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
— Nathanael West
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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written…
— Lydia M. Child
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These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate…
— Pope Pius XI
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the…
— Pope John Paul II
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A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which…
— Tim Cahill
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People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a…
— Peter Forsyth
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I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make…
— William J. Clinton
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When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
— Scott Belsky
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The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of…
— Pope Francis
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