Serious Quotes

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

I've always been in serious relationships. I meet someone and date him for a long period. I don't sit there thinking, like, 'I wonder if I can seduce that guy.' I have other things in my mind.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

Hitler was flirting and courting Eva [Braun] I would say, but he was not serious about her yet. That took awhile to develop.

There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

Donald Trump poses a serious threat to America, based on what he has said. He is unqualified to be president and he is unfit temperamentally to be commander-in-chief.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.

I’m serious about you, Avery. If you want me for real, you have me.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.