The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed! — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I used to have a little whisky before I went on stage. I realized that could have slowly turned into something a… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle. — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious! — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a very serious matter. And what should we do about it? We should reinforce NATO. We need to be prepared to… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious. — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I don't like doing movies that are meaningless or unrealistic. I like things with a lot of reality to them. I'm a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I think the offseason, it's an offseason, but it's where you can excel and where you can pass guys. It's something I… — George Kittle Copy Share Image
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible. — Elisha Cuthbert Copy Share Image
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
