Serious Quotes - Page 13

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Common sense is as rare as genius.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.