Quotes About Serious

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me.

I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

The only serious attempt to manage the world differently – Communism – was so much worse in almost every conceivable way that nobody has the stomach to try again.

Nonie chewed on her bottom lip for a moment. She'd told Fezzo so much already yet there wasn't a speck of incredulity in his eyes. His expression was serious, and she had his full attention. "I'm not quite sure about what to do with Helen, the ghost that followed me home.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Louisa and Marie are loving and caring, and these two dinners feel like betrayal. I mean, friendship betrayal. I take friendship seriously. A friendship is a trust.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

Serious times require strong leadership.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

The word 'fascism' has been used too often in political discourse, and almost always imprecisely. It's a bit like the boy who cried wolf. You warn about wolves so much that no one takes you seriously when a real one actually shows up.

It is a game, my love." He held her gaze. "It is the most serious game I've ever engaged in. And I intend to win it. I will have you back, Isabella—in my life, in my house, and in my bed.

You can't be serious." I turned to face Lily. She was standing in the doorway to my room. The expression on her face could not have been more horrified if I'd declared my allegiance to a religious sect that didn't believe in wearing clothes, only snakes.

Libby Strout." His mouth and eyes are serious. I don't think I've ever seen him so serious. "You are wanted.

She liked to argue, especially with people who were serious about weird ideas they swore were true.

While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light.

The passion for proselytizing and the passion for world dominion are both perhaps symptoms of some serious deficiency at the center.

Look here', he said, frowning, 'You shouldn't joke about matters related to food.

My vision of the future was like the paintings I'd seen of the Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)