Seriousness Quotes

288 Seriousness quotes by 230 unique authors

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many… — Richard Baxter
Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of… — Maurice Samuel
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. — Winston Churchill
Sex is funny and love is serious. — Stephan Jenkins
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual… — Dietrich von Hildebrand
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… — Anthony Burgess
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten… — Michael J. Gelb
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. — Soren Kierkegaard
Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have been taught to… — L. Tom Perry
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected… — John Lennon
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then… — Umberto Eco
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from… — Jon Krakauer
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,… — Robert Frost
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… — Willa Cather
Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity — Alexander Waugh
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do… — Stephen Dobyns
Seriousness is a disease of the ego — Stuart Wilde
It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge?… — Noel Pearson
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to… — William V. Shannon
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good… — Oliver Heaviside
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager,… — Thomas Boswell

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