“The thought is still there, but the seriousness of it comes and goes.” — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.” — John Cooper Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hate it when you're trying to be serious, but then you accidentally smile. — Xiang16 Copy Share Image
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre. — Pat Nixon Copy Share Image
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life… — Messiah's Handbook Reminders for the Advanced Soul Copy Share Image
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves. — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, the first book [The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year] was such a love letter… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image