Serious Quotes

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Autism is a very serious condition.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.