Serious Quotes

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them