Seriously Quotes
2140 Seriously quotes by 1623 unique authors
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...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde
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No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
— Dave Barry
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People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity…
— Ruskin Bond
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D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
— Alexandre Dumas
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When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
— Katherine Mansfield
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
— Walker Percy
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
— Tom Robbins
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There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that…
— Henry B. Eyring
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hello," Newel said. "Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and ... Muriel's weirdo puppet."....Newel grabbed Seth's hand and shook it vigorously. "Congratulations. You just…
— Brandon Mull
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I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its…
— Alan Moore
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
— Haruki Murakami
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears…
— Jane Austen
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My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously,…
— Tom Robbins
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Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team…
— Dave Barry
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it…
— Steve Martin
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How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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