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Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
The mood was somber, depressed and resigned, people are going through the motions of their daily lives. – Timothy Fadek	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The president should strike a tone of somber and yet hope for the American people and for those who sacrificed their lives defending our country after 9/11. – Jimmy Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Memorial Day is Monday -- flags will be flown at halfstaff in honor of those frontline workers who paid the ultimate price while fighting this pandemic on Sunday, both are somber days and their memories deserve better than to be politicized by a bunch of craven partisans. They should be ashamed. – Rich Azzopardi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is just a somber reminder that this is a dangerous job, and actions and words have consequences. Our job does not get any easier because people do not like law enforcement, it pisses me off, it dismays me at the same time. There's no pretty way to say it. – Alex Villanueva	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The anniversary is a somber day. We open up the original premises for the media, any onlookers, and people to pay tributes, but we don't mark it as such. – Ali Aslan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was a can-do attitude, we were very sober and somber in what we were doing. We took it very seriously. We worked very hard. But at the same time it was fun, we really didn't think of it as a job, even though we were working twelve hours a day at least, six days a week. We didn't understand the magnitude of what we were doing, the gee-whiz aspects. – Jerry Bostick	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is a somber day for the entire Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command as we mourn this tremendous loss, our thoughts and prayers remain with their families and loved ones during this extremely difficult time. – Roger Turner	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The military has achieved its aim of controlling PDVSA. The forecast is somber. – Francisco Monaldi	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
As president of the United States you have to look at these issues in a more somber and sober way. – Wolf Blitzer	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The tone of the conference was relatively constructive but still a bit somber because clearly the market had gone through period of stress last year. – Ken Monaghan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are too somber to celebrate the holiday. – Jerrie Wu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They were serious, somber, saddened, and almost immediately beginning to think 'How do we respond to this?'. – Commission Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you're having dinner with Tom the laughter is constant, he's not a somber policy wonk. – Julius Grey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
People are in a somber mood. I could see some officers with tears in their eyes. It is an emotional day for all of us. Like I said, we are a family and we're all hurt by this, it's tragic for people to lose their lives at such an early age, whatever the reason. – Pedro Abad	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. – Alexander MacLaren	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace. – Fridjof Nansen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. – Ugo Betti	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

The mood was somber, depressed and resigned, people are going through the motions of their daily lives.

– Timothy Fadek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The president should strike a tone of somber and yet hope for the American people and for those who sacrificed their lives defending our country after 9/11.

– Jimmy Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Memorial Day is Monday -- flags will be flown at halfstaff in honor of those frontline workers who paid the ultimate price while fighting this pandemic on Sunday, both are somber days and their memories deserve better than to be politicized by a bunch of craven partisans. They should be ashamed.

– Rich Azzopardi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is just a somber reminder that this is a dangerous job, and actions and words have consequences. Our job does not get any easier because people do not like law enforcement, it pisses me off, it dismays me at the same time. There's no pretty way to say it.

– Alex Villanueva

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The anniversary is a somber day. We open up the original premises for the media, any onlookers, and people to pay tributes, but we don't mark it as such.

– Ali Aslan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was a can-do attitude, we were very sober and somber in what we were doing. We took it very seriously. We worked very hard. But at the same time it was fun, we really didn't think of it as a job, even though we were working twelve hours a day at least, six days a week. We didn't understand the magnitude of what we were doing, the gee-whiz aspects.

– Jerry Bostick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is a somber day for the entire Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command as we mourn this tremendous loss, our thoughts and prayers remain with their families and loved ones during this extremely difficult time.

– Roger Turner

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The military has achieved its aim of controlling PDVSA. The forecast is somber.

– Francisco Monaldi

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

As president of the United States you have to look at these issues in a more somber and sober way.

– Wolf Blitzer

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The tone of the conference was relatively constructive but still a bit somber because clearly the market had gone through period of stress last year.

– Ken Monaghan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are too somber to celebrate the holiday.

– Jerrie Wu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They were serious, somber, saddened, and almost immediately beginning to think 'How do we respond to this?'.

– Commission Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you're having dinner with Tom the laughter is constant, he's not a somber policy wonk.

– Julius Grey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People are in a somber mood. I could see some officers with tears in their eyes. It is an emotional day for all of us. Like I said, we are a family and we're all hurt by this, it's tragic for people to lose their lives at such an early age, whatever the reason.

– Pedro Abad

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

– Alexander MacLaren

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

– Fridjof Nansen

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

– Ugo Betti

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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