Serious Quotes

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On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can. — Jeff Cooper
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half… — J C Ryle
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. — Jaggi Vasudev
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that… — Judd Gregg
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up… — Wilhelm Steinitz
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian… — John Flavel
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and… — Rand Paul
My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she… — Melissa Rivers
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least… — Franz Marc
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. — Ray Bradbury
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? — Mary Oliver
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. — Mick Foley
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious… — Henry David Thoreau
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or… — Robert Adams
If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God,… — J. Oswald Sanders
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its… — Charles Spurgeon
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C.S. Lewis
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh. — W.C. Fields
Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the… — Marianne Williamson
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music. — TobyMac
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person. — Donatella Versace
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed,… — James Gilligan

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