Quotes About Serious

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Soma may make you lose a few years in time,' the doctor went on. 'But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity... Of course' Dr Shaw went on, 'you can't allow people to go popping off into eternity if they've got any serious work to do.

Those, therefore, who effect to despise profane Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance.

He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.

As Hughes observed at first hand, the brothers were both serious men of similar temperament, always mischievous, for ever laughing, but where Larry was ultimately a dazzlingly clever man without faith of any kind, Gerry was a simple man of unshakeable conviction.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Life is serious but art is fun!

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

There is no difficulty, no matter how serious, that cannot be overcome, but if you miss this chance, it might ruin your whole political life. Then it will be too late to repent.

Só para o nome-da-mãe ou de "ladrão" era que não havia remédio, por ser a ofensa grave.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

He had the most extraordinary eyes. Even when his expression was serious, a smile lurked in their depths. If her insane parent wasn't so set on promoting the match with Lord Lyle, Charlotte might even find that twinkle appealing. Most women would. Which

China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there, I just decided to do sports and be more a high school kid and have my fun.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

A.K. Hangal's work is a big contribution to serious theatre. To stick to it despite the attractions of commercial cinema is proof of his dedication.