Serious Quotes - Page 4

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.