Serious Quotes · Page 61

During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious…

— Hyun Bin

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

— Jeremy Denk

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

— George Gilder

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

— Donald McKay

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking…

— Ian Bogost

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

— Charlotte Bronte

My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to…

— Katie Piper

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are…

— Kenzaburo Oe

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches…

— Abraham Pais

I'm getting a girlfriend soon," said Michael in a serious tone, and everyone laughed. "You've got plenty of time for that, kiddo,"…

— Alexandra Adornetto

I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be…

— Liu Dan

Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are…

— Anonymous

Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved…

— Jerry Bridges

The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of…

— Andrew Scott

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies…

— Ron Kind

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never…

— Jake Roberts

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits…

— Tzipi Livni

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

— Daniel Dubois

I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That's when it got…

— Ivica Zubac

I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having…

— Harrison Barnes

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for…

— Alex Berenson

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It…

— Tony McCoy

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would…

— Nicholas Stern

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked…

— Elizabeth May

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

— Sheri L. Dew

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

— Pam Grier

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out…

— Peter Baynham

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam…

— Jacques Maritain

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now…

— Pierce Brosnan

In Tamil, the actors have to take care of themselves quite well and that is something I am all set to be…

— Keerthy Suresh

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

— Pope Paul VI

On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights

— Connor Barwin