Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Life is as serious a thing as death.

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

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

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

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)

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

Life is too short to be serious

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

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

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

Man's most serious activity is play.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

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

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

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.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.