Serious Quotes · Page 171

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

— Joey Badass

For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it…

— John Amos Comenius

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for…

— Bill Withers

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

— E. Lynn Harris

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

— Gerhard Richter

I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something…

— Alicia Keys

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,…

— Garry Kasparov

Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of…

— E. J. Gold

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that…

— Allen Tate

We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which…

— James Hutton

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A…

— Janet Yellen

I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a…

— Anthony Hopkins

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It…

— Sheryl Sandberg

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and…

— Cyril Connolly

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world.…

— Mike Pompeo

Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious danger here.

— Mary L. Trump

I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

— Udo Kier

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators…

— Gordon Smith

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

— George Eliot

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

— W. C. Fields

In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore…

— Ann Coulter