Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to… — Andrew von Eschenbach Copy Share Image
'Suburbicon' feels like a last gasp of some kind of middle. It thinks it's both frivolous and serious. But, for that, you… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself. Global warming is no joke. Here's how serious global warming has gotten to be in the United States. In… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at… — Sara Paxton Copy Share Image
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. — Becky Stark Copy Share Image
As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life.… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious. — Ann Jillian Copy Share Image
When I get serious criticism - if I get serious criticism - it's about how I'm thinking and engaging in a topic.… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or… — William James Copy Share Image
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've advised clients to fire or take other serious action against executives and other managers who, in my judgment, had engaged in… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be… — T.I Copy Share Image
![“We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and the equity holders in those banks. We could have talked about forcing those investors to take some serious hits on their risky dealings. The idea that taxpayer…” quote by Elizabeth Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91e/elizabeth-warren-879_creditors_we-us-government-have-used-our-taxpayer_1715996.jpg)
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