Serious Quotes · Page 51

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic…

— George Orwell

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to…

— Brett Favre

... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are…

— Lucinda Creighton

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

— Karl Abraham

I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has…

— Chance The Rapper

I grew up doing theater. I came to New York and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. I was this…

— Amanda Bearse

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

— Thomas Gainsborough

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being…

— Karl Popper

Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work…

— George Carlin

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be…

— Marvin Hamlisch

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense…

— Pete Hegseth

In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in…

— Sam Abell

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but…

— Katherine Parkinson

The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments…

— Tariq Ali

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter…

— Carl Jung

The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone,…

— Helen Frankenthaler

I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before…

— Samuel Larsen

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked,…

— Holly Marie Combs

Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious…

— Kapil Sharma

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem.…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

— Roger Rees

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell…

— Pope John XXIII

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the…

— Pat Roberts

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be…

— Maya Angelou

“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

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

— Jeff Van Gundy

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is…

— Magic Johnson

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting…

— Michele Bachmann

I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and…

— Brian Blessed

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to…

— Virgil Thomson

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious…

— Charlie Chaplin

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's…

— Dee Dee Myers

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you…

— Julian Baggini

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

— Nigel Dennis

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about…

— Lou Williams

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your…

— Ben Harper

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here…

— Patty Judge