Serious Quotes
3122 Serious quotes by 2259 unique authors
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There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of…
— Edward Kennedy
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
— Karl Kraus
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I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is…
— Jean Michel Jarre
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Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a…
— Martin Gardner
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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I have not had any serious non-academic job.
— Amartya Sen
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We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the…
— Isaac Barrow
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
— Michael Cunningham
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns…
— James Hutton
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There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different…
— Jonathan Carroll
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If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog,…
— Maria Sharapova
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I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because…
— Steven Weinberg
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I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
— Fred Durst
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into…
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of…
— Tim LaHaye
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
— Larry Wall
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
— Larry Wall
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who…
— Erma Bombeck
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I…
— Abbey Lincoln
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The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from…
— Frederic Bastiat
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I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its…
— Yoko Ono
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The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you…
— Frederick Lenz
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The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation,…
— Unknown Author
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[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.
— Paul Henderson
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