The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. — Zhou Shengxian 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
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools,… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious… — Chamique Holdsclaw Copy Share Image
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government,… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I looked back at the previous 10 years and realized I had spent 10 years trying to convince kids to behave Christianly… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years,… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there… — Michael Franzese Copy Share Image
If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Some people perceive 'Ghost Adventures' to just be a ghost show on TV, but things are getting very serious, and we are… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing.… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
