Quotes About Seriousness

Come Prepared or Not at All

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

Ahora bien, debes saber que cuando la Biblia menciona que alguien se arrodilló, significa que ese tiempo de oración era en serio.

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

One thing George never did like other directors—I was to later learn, with dismay—was encourage us to "just have fun with it." So many directors have urged me in that amused direction, and I always want to say, "Is that what I'm here for? Fun?

Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

Dead seriousness. Without laughter, the rough and rocky places on the path might be too painful to bear. Humor not only lightens your load, it also broadens your perspective. To be deadly serious is to suffer tunnel vision. To be able to laugh at yourself clears the vision.

Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters;

No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Es un prejuicio que se ha hecho sitio en su ánimo, que se ha instalado en él. Su ánimo se ha tornado un refugio para los pensamientos viejos, vagos, indigentes, que no tienen otro sitio al que ir. Debería echarlos de allí a patadas, limpiar del todo el recinto. Pero no se toma esa molestia, o al menos no con la seriedad suficiente.

Una aventura? ¿Iba en serio? - ¿Qué más dará que fuera en serio? Pasada cierta edad, todas las aventuras van en serio. Igual que los ataques cardíacos.

Murhder. My name is Murhder." She laughed. And then her mouth fell open before she could catch herself. "Wait, you're serious." When he nodded, she tried to compose herself. "Oh. Wow. Is—um, is that first or last?" "Last. My first name is Cold-Blooded." As she did a double take, he smiled shyly. "I'm joking. It's just Murhder.

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

the innocent seriousness with which she told her story and I'd listened to so often and myself told-- wide eyed hugging in heaven together-- hipsters of America in the 1950's sitting in a dim room-- the clash of the streets beyond the window's bare soft sill.

But the mountains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact laugher is solemn.

I wished the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.