Quotes About Solemn

Tucker seemed too happy to smile, his expression solemn and prayerful.

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

Whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow—the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries. Many times since, upon a summer day, when the sun is at its hottest, I have heard the same wind arising and uttering the same hollow, solemn, Memnonian, but saintly swell: it is in this world the one sole audible symbol of eternity.

A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.

would only lead to trouble. She took a solemn

Indeed it is, Kate,' Marak agreed. 'It's time to plan your revenge. Goblins just adore revenge.' He grinned. 'Do you have anything in mind?' Kate was taken aback. 'Revenge is wrong,' she told him solemnly. 'Vengeance belongs to God.' The goblin put his head to one side and watched her through narrowed eyes. 'You won't even give God a little help?' he asked softly.

Here was a place sacred to the dead, who were not the living ceased, but almost another species, requiring rites and prayers that belonged uniquely to them.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through.

You were the only one, Andre. It's always been you.

Look at you. How did you happen to me?" Gods, shew as just going to cry if he kept this up. "I just . . . there's no one else. Ever. It's you until I no longer draw breath.

Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.

Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

The mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn—" "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you.

I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in that moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.

He looked closely into Vyvyan's round and smiling face and said solemnly, "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

hold of a cow's nose for me he would say solemnly

My heart had only One thought, One want, One need. Despite it all.. All my Heart as ever wanted was You.

Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.

That is how poets write, the similar sounds. But then Shakespeare has no rhymes: blank verse. The flow of the language it is. The thoughts. Solemn.

When a high government official lies, he commits a horrible crime. We've put our trust in that person, based on his solemn word, his integrity.