Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?  Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

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?

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces, right, we got a collapsing middle class. We have more wealth and income inequality today than we've had since the 1920s. We have all of these enormous issues.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

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.