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Quotes About Serious

I knew I looked kind of ridiculous, in my personal opinion - Tamlyn Tomita's opinion - a Vulcan in sunglasses and ears is a little too much, but I knew I just had to play it seriously.
~ Tamlyn Tomita
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
~ Alan Arkin
Blogs are nothing more than a personal meandering diary for public consumption - a narcissist's dream. So you can imagine when bloggers take themselves - and their blogs - seriously, it's super annoying.
~ Carole Radziwill
When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.
~ Seann William Scott
You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.
~ Mike Daniels
But they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Times are grave and you seem very indignant.
~ Ralph Ellison
At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.
~ Joseph Heller
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
When we suffer from amnesia, every form of serious authority for faith is in question, and we live unauthorized lives of faith and practice unauthorized ministries.
~ Walter Brueggemann
To be "defiled" by empire is to be robbed of a distinct identity that permits freedom against dominant culture. "Fasting" as alert abstention may be the order of the day that will make the asking of prayers more serious and compelling.
~ Walter Brueggemann
It is evident that immunity to any transcendent voice and disregard of neighbor leads finally to the disappearance of passion. And where passion disappears there will not be any serious humanizing energy.
~ Walter Brueggemann
During the day as serious opinions are being discussed, there is an opportunity to give the biblical view on issues of sin and righteousness or the purpose of life. But each time you speak, you have seen rejection of yourself with your views. Each testimony of truth makes you more unwelcome. Will you be bold for truth today?
~ Walter J. Chantry
El estereotipo social que muestra a la persona ética como un ser aburrido, aguafiestas o mojigato es absurdo y carece de todo fundamento.
~ Walter Riso
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
~ Wendell Berry
I want conservatives really to listen to these women, to stop saying boys will be boys, and to take what these women are saying seriously. As for the feminists, I want to invite them to consider whether the cause of all this unhappiness might be something other than the patriarchy.
~ Wendy Shalit
When I was a college dean, another job people take seriously, I think I kept signaling that I held myself at an ironic distance from the role.
~ Wendy W. Fairey
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
Baby Step Four: Invest 15 Percent of Your Income in Retirement Those of you concerned about retirement are relieved we have finally gotten to this step. Those who have been living in denial are wondering what all the fuss is about. Baby Step Four is time to get really serious about your wealth building.
~ Dave Ramsey
maybe we're goin' about this all the wrong way, tryin' to find dealers and trail 'em, follow the tracks up the ladder. There's something about this whole setup that smacks of serious organization, something big enough to hide in plain sight, know what I mean? If it's that well laid out, we can follow minions all day long, we're never gonna find the top guy, because they don't ever see the top guys.
~ David Archer
This isn't a slumber party.
~ James Dashner
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
~ James Madison
To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself. There
~ James P. Carse