Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious.

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

On a serious level, I wouldnt tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldnt ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.

Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

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 don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death. People believe they'll be down for a few days and then be fine, and that's just not the case.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

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

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.