Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

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

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.

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

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 sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

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

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.

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.

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

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

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

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.

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.

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.