Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another's we soon cease to grieve.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

We don't have to be victims of the spiritual fall-out of the digital age. It does take some serious intentionality to combat the cultural compulsion for connection that surrounds us, but it's worth it.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.