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Quotes About Solemn

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
~ Philip Kearny
The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.
~ Rob Sheffield
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!
~ Robert Dale Owen
While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.
~ Jay Nixon
It should be underscored that our goal is not, and should not, be a crusade against the ICC but a solemn call for the organisation to take Africa's concerns seriously.
~ Hailemariam Desalegn
I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.
~ Quinn Loftis, Prince of Wolves
A Edmond de Luna, el hacedor de laberintos y único superviviente de la travesía, lo encontraron atado al timón y quemado por el sol.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I'd ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone.
~ Charlaine Harris
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.
~ Thomas de Quincey
They but appear a solemn People,— worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.
~ Thomas Pynchon
It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.
~ Iris Murdoch
Her solemn face of a Hebrew angel regarded me, ready, stripped of expression.
~ Iris Murdoch
Since the forthcoming write-up of my Ph.D. dissertation was much in my mind, it was the work of a moment to begin a solemn dissertation containing all the stigmata of academic turgidity about a substance which dissolved in water 1.12 seconds before you added the water.
~ Isaac Asimov
Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.
~ Isabel Allende
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?
~ Michel de Montaigne
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
~ John Masefield
Blow ye the trumpet, blow The gladly solemn sound: Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come; Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
~ Susan Higginbotham
You're the only one I ever believe in, the answer that could never be found.
~ Goo Goo Dolls
Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.
~ Santosh Kalwar
They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford's benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice. Poor Clifford! Poor Hepzibah! Poor harpsichord!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I shook my head. "Go on, swear it!" "I swear by my life!" cried Aunt Maddy happily. "I swear," murmured the others, rather embarrassed. Nick began giggling nervously, because Aunt Maddy had begum humming the national anthem to show what a solemn occasion it was.
~ Kerstin Gier
I love you, Lochlan," she said, hating the fact that her voice broke as she spoke the words. "I will always love you and you alone.
~ Kinley MacGregor
Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
~ George R.R. Martin