Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

An annuity is a very serious business.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.