Quotes About Serious

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There's an assortment of elections around the EU. We're very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.

The beginning of science is the recognition that the simplest phenomena of ordinary life raise quite serious problems: Why are they as they are, instead of some different way?

Occupy is really the first sustained response to this. People have referred to the Tea Party as a response, but that is highly misleading. The Tea Party is relatively affluent, white. Its influence and power come from the fact that it has enormous corporate support and heavy finance. Parts of the corporate world simply see them as their shock troops, but it's not a movement in the serious sense that Occupy is.

True faith is too serious to have room for the distraction of passion.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is required.

learned meaninglessness." He himself remembered a therapist who said, "George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There's no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act."13

In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to 'serious' courses replete with 'trends ' and 'schools ' and 'myths ' and 'symbols ' and 'social comment ' and something unspeakably spooky called 'climate of thought.' Actually these 'serious' courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.

Wow." Sin said, her high-heeled boots clacking on the floor as she approached. " I didn't expect a party or anything, but I figured you might be able to handle a hi." "I'm serious" , he gritted. "Get out." "Well, you know what ?" She tied her hair up in a knot. "I would, except that you fucking bonded me to you or something, and I need to borrow your dick for a minute.

He sold his soul to a Soul Reaper—" "That was stupid." "Yeah," Raze said, without missing a beat, "we agree on that. Anyway—" "No, I mean, really stupid." Revenant leaned against the doorframe and divided his unnerving attention between Raze and Slake. "I mean, it just seems obvious to me. Don't sell your soul. Seriously. Who does that? What the fuck?

Sugar, I am not playing a game. This is serious. I mean to woo you, so shut up and let me do it.

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.

Luigi, the art teacher, holds up his brush, and we all do the same. I'm not quite sure why we're mirroring his action, but Luigi is very compelling, more than capable of making four excited girls calm down and concentrate on what he's telling us. I think it's partly because he's very serious. Either he doesn't have a sense of humor, or it's extremely well hidden.

I was thinking about a lot of things at that moment, really, and I mean a lot of things. Like the way squirrels in my front yard won't play with me. But more serious stuff too.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ....