Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.

If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.