Quotes About Seriousness

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I say this because there was a seriousness about her that seemed almost like a kind of anger. As though she might say, I came here from whatever unspeakable distance and from whatever unimaginable otherness just to oblige your prayers. Now say something with a little meaning in it.

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

Well, I am sorry. I did not expect her to take me seriously." "A rich, handsome, marriageable man is always taken seriously.

There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Desde então tenho visto que praticamente toda a gente no negócio da carne é engraçada – assim como praticamente toda a gente no negócio do peixe não tem graça nenhuma.

One does not like to have one's little offerings of sentimental service turned into burlesque when one is in love in earnest.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously

It is absolutely what I think.' He looks deadly serious now. 'These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programmes to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish ever made anyone happier?

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

Søren Kierkegaard was a philosopher of the human spirit. To come to understand what he is saying is to be challenged as a person, the challenge is in the form of an interrogation, the topic of which is very simple: you are an existing person, a human being; do you treat this fact with the seriousness and respect it demands? Or would you rather avoid the question?

Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

We will never stand in awe of being loved by God until we reckon with the seriousness of our sin and the justice of his wrath against us. But when, by grace, we waken to our unworthiness, then we may look at the suffering and death of Christ and say, "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the [wrath-absorbing] propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10).

Sin's outcome is eternal misery. What infinite ugliness then must be the ugliness of sin. This is the constant subject of preaching, for this is what we must ever overcome. It is more serious than Satan and sickness and insanity. None of those can damn a soul. Only sin can damn. This we must defeat in preaching, or all is in vain. Flippancy in and around our preaching communicates to people that sin is not as serious as the Bible says it is.