Serious Quotes

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

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

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

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

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.