Serious Quotes - Page 5

Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

You can be serious without a suit

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

Don’t take yourself too seriously.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.