Gravely Quotes

67 quotes by 61 authors

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
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
'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
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
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
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and… — Charles Dickens
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
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was â€˜gravely disabled.â€™ To support this view, they wrote… — Elyn Saks
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair. — Candice Millard
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing. — Nathanael West
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
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
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
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
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
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
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. — Scott Belsky
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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