Quotes About Serious

This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity.

You're discussing recreational drugs?" He stood and shut the door and came back looking very serious indeed. I was chastened, as I should have been. "Sorry. What have I never minded about?" "Well, I have truthfully always imagined it was my talent, my gift to introduce my friends to each other. Not one I could ever use for my own happiness, I must say.

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No matter how serious the tone, literature offers pleasure in its construction as well as in its content

Mental illness is not funny.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

When something begins to devour the world, a serious matter is taking place. If the devouring entity is evil or insane, the situation is not merely serious; it is grim. But Fat viewed the process the other way around. He viewed it exactly as Plato had viewed it in his own cosmology: the rational mind (noös) persuades the irrational (chance, blind determinism, ananke), into cosmos.

her eyes glittered, and her expression was so serious and absorbed that Will could have fallen in love with her again if love didn't already possess every fibre of his being.

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer—life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

The truth isn't laughable And the trust isn't funny at all.

These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously.

I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

It is your manner, my dear. When a young man comes up to speak to you, you look so serious that a spiteful person might believe you doubtful of your own virtue. You seem to fear lest a smile should undo you. You really look as if you were asking forgiveness of God for the sins that may be committed around you. The world, my dearest, is not a convent. — But, as you mentioned your dress, I may confess to you that it is no less a duty to conform to the customs and fashions of Society.

That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?

Face-cream, hand-cream, nose-cream, eye-cream. I wondered for a moment how serious it would be if you ever got home drunk and accidentally put face-cream on your hands or hand-cream on your face.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

I'm serious, Ice," and he hands me his business card. "Call me at Warner Bros. tomorrow. If you're interested, we'll get you the script to look at.

He was a six and a half foot scowl. (on Rachmaninov)

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.