Serious Quotes - Page 21

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince us that seemingly far away events are close by, relevant to any serious person's life.

Every man is grave alone.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.