Serious Quotes

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

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

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.