Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

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.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

Jimmy: When you die, I die Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

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

Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

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

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.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

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

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

Life is too short to be serious

Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.