Quotes About Serious

This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily, it goes without saying. Not every idiocy contains a philosophical pearl. But there exist ordinary situations, everyday gestures, actions we carry out continuously, which can become the starting point for that astonishment that gives rise to philosophy.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

La comicità ha una grande virtù: è un posto sicuro in cui ciò che è serio può rifugiarsi e sopravvivere.»

He was to tell André Malraux later: "Clemeneau used to say: 'War is a much too serious business to be left to the military.' And look what happened to Communism when the Communists got hold of it or to the Catholic Church in the hands of the clergy. We are rapidly approaching a point when it will no longer be possible to trust scientists with science.

instantly felt in jeopardy, for his impudence was plain and Jesse's countenance was stern

The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no further progress would be possible. They would spend a whole year over every page.

And if we take it seriously, we are going to find that this simple notion of a loving God does not make for an easy philosophy.

I might add that serious people will find some semblance of a normal novel, while frivolous people won't find their usual one here. There it stands, deprived of the esteem of the serious and the love of the frivolous, the two main pillars of opinion. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

Her husband didn't confess the reason for his refusal to me. He told me, too, that it was because of personal business and the serious, convinced face with which I listened to him did honor to human hypocrisy.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

I have never described, even in the diary, the act of self-murder which takes place after my being with people. A sense of shame for the most trivial defect, lack, slip, error, for every statement made, or for my silence, for being too gay or too serious, for not being earthy enough, or for being too passionate, for not being free, or being too impulsive, for not being myself or being too much so.

I am one of those serious women.

Well, to make a long story short, I had this long talk with my baseball coach. And I started reading about depression. I learned that it can be serious. You shouldn't ignore it. Talking about it can help. So can a long trip.

Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. Okay, look. Deb's face was dead serious. I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong. I'm offended, Dave told her flatly.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

A suspicion that lightness is not deeply serious (but instead whimsical) pervades aesthetic discourse. But what if lightness is a philosophical choice to temper reality with strangeness, to temper the intellect with emotion, and to temper emotion with humor.

But in the end I said, 'It's terribly serious, of course, but I think more people die of heartbreak than of radiation.

So I announced my decision to endorse Hillary Clinton, while making it clear I was only doing it for my personal safety. People laughed. They assumed I was joking. But I stuck to my endorsement, mentioning it often, and always appending "for my safety" to the end as an explanation. I wasn't joking. I was quite serious about trying to lower my risk. The number of people on Twitter accusing me of being Goebbels slowed to a trickle almost immediately.

You have to tell this ship to turn around!" He had a feeling she was serious, so he managed not to laugh. Well,he tried-and failed. "I'm sure the 'ship' won't listen to reason. No,really,I'm positive it won't." "You know what I mean!" she shrieked at him.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

Where's the point in undergoing a serious operation if you can't boast about it now and then.