Gravely Quotes
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Tags: America, Government, War ✍ Author: Orson Scott CardIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Tags: Funny, Laugh, Why ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonOne of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
Tags: Against, Law, School ✍ Author: Joe SakicWe cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
Tags: Alone, God, Truth ✍ Author: Wendell BerryI was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Tags: After, Book, Woman ✍ Author: Julia Child