Serious Quotes

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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. — Andrew Carnegie
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. — Stephen Crane
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really… — John Paul Stevens
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and… — Yoweri Museveni
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated… — Rand Paul
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a… — Martti Ahtisaari
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional… — Jim Stovall
This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. — Albert Mohler
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the… — Stephen LaBerge
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts… — C. D. Broad
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount… — Bjorn Lomborg
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week. — Al Gore
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. — Winston Churchill
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible. — Elisha Cuthbert
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. — Norman Cousins
Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their… — Delta Goodrem
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France… — Nicholas D. Kristof
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they… — Anita Loos
I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious… — Michael Franzese
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly

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