Quotes About Seriousness

I haven't that much of a sense of humour.

When someone doesn't have a sense of humour, it kills me.

Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

Do you understand this is serious? I understand you think it's serious.

Eres demasiado seria, Amy, eres demasiado rígida, Amy, le das demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, lo analizas todo demasiado, has dejado de ser divertida, me haces sentir inútil, Amy, haces que me sienta mal, Amy». Me fue arrancando cachos a golpe de indiferencia: mi independencia, mi orgullo, mi autoestima. Yo di y él tomó y tomó y tomó. Me eliminó de la existencia.

the people believe we're indifferent to the criticism they won't take it seriously either.

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We dream of it, but they act.

She had attached herself to youth and hope and seriousness and now they had failed her more than age and despair.

Henry was important, but important rather as an elephant is important, from the size of his department; there are some kinds of importance that remain hopelessly damned to unseriousness.

effort.While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

The continuing silence and expectant seriousness in the room filled me with a chill of menace.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

I have fun when it's the right time to have fun, but when I lock in for practice and matches, I'm not worried about fun.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

My best quality is that I am persistent. My worst is that I am no fun.

I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

I have that balance of having fun - because I can need to have a ton of fun - but also locking it in at times.

There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'

Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.