Quotes About Seriousness

The Japanese samurai held the view that what was serious for the common man was but a game for the valiant. Noble

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.

We are not here to laugh.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

When I am playing for my country, there is not a single match that I can take lightly.

I do not take my job lightly.

You really don't throw a ministerial job away lightly.

I know that I can't take anyone lightly.

I don't take any project lightly. Every project is important for me. In fact, every scene in every film is important.

In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.

Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

If I do not mean what I say, I am trifling with God.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Serious people have few ideas," said Paul Valéry. "People with ideas are never serious.

Cómo justificar esa palabra tan imprudentemente comprometida y, hablando con propiedad – de esto, jamás dudó espíritu serio alguno-, insostenible?

Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...

His first impulse, when he saw the horse and rider ahead, was to honk, both in self-advertisement, warning and greeting, but he remembered in time the seriousness of the occasion and did not do so, reflecting, after it was too late, that Thomas might feel he was snubbed, as if he had passed him in the street without speaking, and he was angry with Thomas for possibly having any such feeling about such petty matters, at such a time.

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.