We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages,… — Noel Pearson Copy Share Image
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Lady Windemere's Fan 23. In naïve,… — Susan Sontag 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
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
