Portentous Quotes

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a… — Terry Pratchett
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday."… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes… — Ben Aaronovitch
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big… — Herman Melville
What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social… — David Miliband
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to… — Elwyn Brooks White

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