Serious Quotes - Page 7

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection. The claim is too staggering, the event too earthshaking, the implications too significant and the matter too serious. We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us. To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Life's greatest reward is life itself

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.