Quotes About Solemnity

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

what does all this benefit us without the love and grace of God? It is completely futile unless we love God and serve only him.

La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love.

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

You're a serious one, aren't you?" I confirmed that I was and always would be: a serious infant, a serious child, a serious teenager, a serious student, a serious adult.

A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.

She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing.

And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. This remorseless inevitableness is what pervades scientific thought. The laws of physics are the decrees of fate.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Ma grande raison de vivre, c'est lui. Si tout le reste périssait et que lui demeurât, je continuerais d'exister ; mais si tout le reste demeurait et que lui fût anéanti, l'univers me deviendrait complètement étranger, je n'aurais plus l'air d'en faire partie.

Se tudo o mais perecesse e ele ficasse, eu continuaria, mesmo assim, a existir; e, se tudo o mais ficasse e ele fosse aniquilado, o universo se tornaria para mim uma vastidão desconhecida, a que eu não teria a sensação de pertencer.

The minister goes stiffly in As if the house were his, And he owned all the mourners now

People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

All I know is that this substitution of persons stops with you, because nothing can be substituted for you, and because for me it was for all eternity that this succession of terrible or charming enigmas was to come to an end at your feet. You are not an enigma for me. I say that you have turned me from enigmas forever.

For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe.

what became known as the "Falaise smell." Corruption even seeped into Spitfire cockpits at fifteen hundred feet. "Everything is dead," wrote Ernie Pyle, who had arrived on August 21. "The men, the machines, the animals—and you alone are left alive.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.