Solemn Quotes - Page 6

• Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being
  should assume in time of peace,
  the solemn and unconditional obligation
  not to participate in any war, for any reason
  or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Thoughtful, Support

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.133, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Marriage, Teacher, Men

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

  Edward Abbey

  Independent, Honor, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• Ah! the year is slowly dying,
  And the wind in tree-top sighing,
  Chant his requiem.
  Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
  High in air wild birds are calling,
  Nature's solemn hymn.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Fall, Air, Years

  Mary Weston Fordham, “Passing Of The Old Year”

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Grateful

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• Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Dedication, Common Purpose

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.

  Mazie Hirono

  Senior, Mother, Retirement

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• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Office, Creative, Parent

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

  Rex Stout

  Art, Gay, Dancing

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.27, Crimeline

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• Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

  C. S. Lewis

  Games, Sin, Universe

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.78, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Magic is not always serious or solemn.
  It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Paganism, Serious

  Scott Cunningham (1985). “Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise”, p.9, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Past, Views

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• I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

  Michael Stipe

  Tired, Mystery, Poet

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• It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

  Diane Arbus

  Beautiful, Photography, Tears

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Lasts, Revolution, Bigger

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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• I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

  Philip Kearny

  Order, Soldier, Retreat

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Body, Divinity

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• There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.382, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

  Phoebe Cary

  Home, Today, Has Beens

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.48

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• There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Careers, May, Hell

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