Serious Things Quotes
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We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
— Hudson Taylor
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
— Karl Kraus
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
— Van Wyck Brooks
You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality
— Oscar Wilde
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
— Warren G. Harding
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
— Antonio Banderas
I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.
— Rob Portman
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
— Haruki Murakami
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
— Dwight L. Moody
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
— W. H. Auden
Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
— Patricia Wentworth
I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.
— David Foster Wallace
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
— Jeanloup Sieff
I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.
— Evangeline Lilly
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
— Oscar Wilde
We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young.
— Beryl Markham
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
— Maria Bamford
I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things
— Selena
But you were concerned about making sure things, you know, didn't get serious."
"Yeah, because I'm an idiot. — Robyn Carr
"Yeah, because I'm an idiot. — Robyn Carr
Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
— Adel Al-Jubeir
That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?
— Howard Jacobson
Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.
— TobyMac
The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)
— Amy Bloom
One must speak about serious things seriously.
— Anton Chekhov
There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
— Margaret Geller
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated ... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious ... love life.
— Maya Angelou
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
— Olivia Colman
Writes very good books; about very bad things.
— Christian Cipollini
I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.
— Tom Rush
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
— Earl King
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
— William S. Burroughs
That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey
I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check.
— Krista Ritchie
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
— Harland Williams
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
— Winston Churchill
There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
— Shia Labeouf
A good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes.
— VanillaCreamPie8888
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
— Plato
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
— Jody Hill
Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
— Jim Carrey
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
— Harold Russell
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
— Kanye West
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
— George Orwell
Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things
— John Schuerholz
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
— Helen Keller
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.
— Graham Greene
I never intended to only do dark, serious things.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
— Rahm Emanuel
I only joke about really serious things,
— Ali Smith
It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.
— Nicholas Sparks
Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.
— Neal Stephenson
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
— Gerhard Richter
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
— John C. Bogle
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.
— Martin Henderson
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
— John Ashcroft
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
— E. M. Forster
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.
— Christian Lacroix
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
— Steven Wright
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.
— Robert Plant
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
— Werner Heisenberg