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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. -- Anne Lamott
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive. -- Charles Kennedy
I 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. -- Lydia M. Child
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. -- Christopher Hitchens
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It 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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- Orson Scott Card
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
One 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. -- Elyn Saks
We 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. -- Wendell Berry
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely. -- Agatha Christie
The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely. -- Confucius
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. -- Scott Belsky
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing. -- Nathanael West
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair. -- Candice Millard
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. -- John Terraine
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." -- Luis Walter Alvarez
Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. -- Anthony de Mello
Have you ever wanted to put on a Santa suit?" "I have always wanted to do that," said Carter gravely. -- Richelle Mead
There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it. -- Dietrich von Hildebrand
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me. -- W. Somerset Maugham
[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. -- Mark Twain
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it." -- Mark Twain
He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever. -- Margaret Weis
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself. -- Pope John Paul II
You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199 -- Lewis Carroll
I don't mean to be rude"?" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. -- J. K. Rowling
But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride. -- Gail Carriger
She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it. -- Lynn Kurland
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines. -- C. S. Lewis
In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the fundamental covenants and enforceable by courts of law, have been gravely violated. -- Nyla Ali Khan
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic. -- James Thomas Fields
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery

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