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Quotes About Serious

He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious.
~ John Grisham
Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.
~ John Guy
Life is serious but art is fun!
~ John Irving
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
~ John Lennon
And then you've got a media ready to package that, because it takes away from the political content of them songs. Suddenly there's not a real serious social message, there's just a drug addict. I
~ John Lydon
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~ John M. Barry
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.
~ Gene Green
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
~ R. C. Sproul
I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.
~ Tim Kaine
I - to say the word "scared", I don't know if I'm scared because, I have faith that we will see this through. But I take Donald Trump seriously. He has literally millions of people who support him.
~ Keith Ellison
few people took Trump's ambition to run for president as seriously as he took himself. When I later asked a longtime acquaintance why Trump had finally decided to run after so many prior feints, the person responded without hesitation, "He's gotten crazier.
~ Maggie Haberman
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to believe that nobody, really, was as smart as herself. For another thing, people who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
~ Marcel Proust
It occurred to me that everything I was doing in Indonesia was more like a game than reality. It was as though we were playing a game of poker. We kept our cards hidden. We could not trust each other or count on the reliability of the information we shared. Yet, this game was deadly serious, and its outcome would impact millions of lives for decades to come.
~ John Perkins
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
~ John Steinbeck
Joseph was elderly and lean and serious, and his life was so complicated that only a profound man would know him to be simple.
~ John Steinbeck
Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.
~ Tucker Carlson
I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
~ Sheila Heti
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Liberation Theology needs to be understood as a continuing process of re-contextualisation, a permanent exercise of serious doubting in theology. By
~ Unknown
After the gravedigger's testimony had been heard, the judge spoke to Marcella. "Signorina," he said, "we are too busy here with serious matters to spend time on such foolishness. Take your skull, go home, and don't let us see you again.
~ Marcella Hazan
Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!' Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.
~ Margery Allingham