Serious Quotes

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

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

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

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

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

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

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.

There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.