Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake. " For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
We speak piously of. . . making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.
As our country bled. . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.
