Serious Quotes

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

Man's most serious activity is play.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.