It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

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

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.

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

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

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

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.