Serious Quotes

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If you are not serious, people will sense it. — Bela Lugosi
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. — Don Herold
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. — Marie de France
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child… — Thomas Sowell
Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without… — Ayn Rand
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a… — Daniel Goleman
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. — Robertson Davies
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy,… — George Wald
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating… — Samuel Johnson
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be… — Samuel Johnson
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. — Derek Walcott
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some… — Tim Field
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. — Russell Brand
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ad Reinhardt
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If… — Rajneesh
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. — Alan Minter

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