Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.

People - just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually.

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

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.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place.

Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral process, but the electoral processes of Europeans with the same toolkit - money, fake news, propaganda, and what those Soviets used to call aktivniye meropriyatiya, active measures. This is serious.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

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

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

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.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Since Hillary Clinton is the first time we've had a woman who was a serious contender for president, it's been an adjustment to watch her more changeable looks, and to see the lengths she goes to get the right lighting and to make the right wardrobe choices. Her campaign is devising strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal.