Serious Quotes · Page 75

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

— Katie Piper

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show…

— Karl Rove

RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a…

— Mike Marsh

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail…

— Jay Leno

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’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious…

— Michele Bachmann

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little…

— Brendon Urie

I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has…

— Anthony Zerbe

You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize…

— Jeff Mangum

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of…

— Norman Cousins

Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long…

— Thomas Moore

Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a…

— Charles Krauthammer

We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

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 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

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

— Jeremy Denk

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

— Hyun Bin

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

— George Gilder

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

— Madeleine M. Kunin

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

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

— Ian Bogost

I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to…

— Ezra G. Levin

People say, 'When are you going to do serious stuff?' I look at them as though they were crazy. My serious stuff…

— Walter Matthau

Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

— Donna Summer

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a…

— Helen Keller

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as…

— Colm Toibin

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

— Sterling W Sill

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

— Fred Durst

I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus…

— Henry Cavill

Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

— Alex Haley

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

— Bobby Jindal

“A person should neither serious nor curious, to the thing which will not profitable for him/her life.”

— Rashid Jorvee