Serious Quotes
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.
I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.
If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.
I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus . . . yeah Pegasus sounds better.
Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.