Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
“Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can… — Nikki S. Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of… — Peter Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
In order to make your dreams a reality, you must first be willing to take yourself and your dreams seriously. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If… — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Why we need to be serious. Just think guys do seriousness is the only way to overcome the toughest times of our… — Vino Copy Share Image
In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world. — Mike D Copy Share Image
I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level… — James William Middleton Copy Share Image
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be serious all of the time... So if you can't Laugh at Yourself... Call Me... I'll Laugh… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dare to be different in a nice way. Take the risk, play the game but be serious about it, persevere to be… — Richie Tien Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
“So we won't take ourselves too seriously. Because taking something serious doesn't make it go away any faster. In fact, it keeps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.” — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image