Serious Quotes
3122 Serious quotes by 2259 unique authors
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Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.…
— Kieron Gillen
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The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be…
— Vladimir Semichastny
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Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any…
— Marion G. Romney
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How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but…
— W. Eugene Hansen
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Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then…
— Darrel Ray
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There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
— Confucius
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There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians…
— Amy Poehler
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
— Tony Snow
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I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it…
— Sean Taylor
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Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.
— Suzy Kassem
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Work? It’s just serious play.
— Saul
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System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and…
— Chris Shipley
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious…
— Felix Dennis
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Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair…
— Ron Kind
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing…
— Earl Blumenauer
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that…
— Bruce Sterling
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