Serious Quotes - Page 30

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

We're looking at leaks very - very, very serious. Those are criminal leaks. They're put out by people either in agencies - I think you'll see it stopping because now we have our people in. You know, again, we don't have our people in because we can't get them approved by the Senate.

To quit taking risks is a serious risk!

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

I've got a serious-looking head.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't." "The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.