Serious Quotes - Page 10

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

I've never been married, and I've never been divorced. But I have had some very serious relationships. I was engaged twice. The way that those relationships ended, it was very very heartbreaking.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

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, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.