Quotes About Seriousness

sólo existen dos modos de tratar la Biblia: o se la toma al pie de la letra, o se la toma en serio.

Not only was Prefect Mutz waiting for them, but his boss, Director General Jacques Gisquet, and his boss's boss, Minister of the Interior Pierre Blot, were waiting for them. Neville saw this as a sign that they were taking her accusations seriously. Simon saw the potential for something very different, but before he could stop his boss, she started in.

Hemos perdido a Shail, y Alsan se ha convertido en algo... que no puedo describir. Y también he estado a punto de perderte a ti, y, si eso hubiera sucedido... me habría vuelto loco-confesó, mirándola con seriedad.

Para qué sirve jugar con los hijos? Es la manera más directa de entrar en relación con ellos. Generalmente, les pedimos que se adapten al mundo de los adultos –cosa que hacen, por ejemplo, soportando largas jornadas escolares–. Jugar con ellos es hacer el camino inverso: nosotros nos adaptamos un rato al mundo de los niños. Parece ser un trato justo. Definitivamente, jugar es una cosa seria. Y los niños están dispuestos a enseñarnos las reglas.

You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.

All right. And if any of you get hurt I'm going to be really mad. I sleep with a Glock next to my bed so don't think I'm joking. I will shoot you if you don't make sure Gibson gets back here safely

Joy develops into the panoramic situation of seeing or feeling the whole ground, the open ground. This open situation has no hint of limitation, of imposed solemnity. And if you do try to treat life as a "serious business," if you try to impose solemnity upon life as though everything is a big deal, then it is funny. Why such a big deal?

Se tivesses acreditado na minha brincadeira de dizer verdades, teria ouvido verdades que teimo em dizer brincando. Muitas vezes falei como o palhaço, mas nunca desacreditei da seriedade da platéia que sorria.

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below. (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous.)

We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I'm not a joke machine. You can't just feed crap in and get funny out.

...the sense of the Absurd, which is despair refusing to take itself seriously.

A pretty judge of soul, he, to be sure! a man that never laughed!

I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all having it outside your body is terribly dangerous... Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. Humour is probably something the male of the species discovered through their own anatomy.

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Have you heard of the Resistance, Poe?" "Rumors, mostly." "Such as?" "Such as there's a splinter of the Republic military that…that feels the Republic isn't taking certain threats as seriously as they maybe ought to be taking them. Specifically the threat posed by the First Order.

Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are.

They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Touchy, no sense of humor, no sense of proportion—that was the matter with them, these new fellows... No sense of proportion. And it was a sense of proportion, above all things, that Brookfield ought to teach

I had grown weary of federal agents and wiseguys, narcs and stings and brain-fried lowlifes, and all the seriousness and pretense we invest in the province of moral invalids.

Preacher," said Temperance, "I don't hold much with religion." "Few do, and of those who profess faith, some take it far too seriously and others consider it a license to misbehave.