Serious Quotes
When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.
Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.
I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.
You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.
Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.
There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.
Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.
Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley
I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.
In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.
It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.
I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.
I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.
It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.