Serious Quotes · Page 85

Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do the role in 'MTP,' as it was a very serious and aching subject.

— Nithya Menen

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

— John Rawls

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before…

— Jean Michel Jarre

Donald Trump poses a serious threat to America, based on what he has said. He is unqualified to be president and he…

— Hillary Clinton

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because…

— Marcel Proust

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

— Clifford Stoll

I'm not that Internet-savvy. I get by. But that's all. I don't have serious skills or any other stuff.

— Robert Christgau

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

— Peter Singer

I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where…

— James Toback

And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed…

— Peter Drucker

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged…

— Maria Montessori

Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle…

— Rob Lowe

The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but…

— Tony Blair

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless…

— Gary Kleck

Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier…

— Heath Ledger

Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the…

— Mary Robinson

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

— Delta Goodrem

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

— Kami Garcia

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this…

— Justin Guarini

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too…

— Frank Zappa

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish…

— Leila Josefowicz

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting…

— Robert Hass

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

— Ossie Davis

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

— Emil Ferris

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a…

— Lewis Carroll

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom…

— Socrates

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

— TobyMac

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became…

— Allan Bloom

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full…

— John Dufresne

The only thing that's serious to me about music is making sure marginalized people are included in the story.

— Justin Tranter

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story…

— Jay Asher

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong…

— Peter Drucker

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's…

— Steve Harvey

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.…

— Joseph O'Neill

People who don't know me think I'm so serious. I'm a prankster; I like to have fun with the people who know…

— Andrea Pirlo

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film…

— Kirti Kulhari

My dad coached pretty much my whole life. I think he stopped coaching me when I got to the seventh, eighth grade,…

— Kevin Knox

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't…

— Maya Angelou