Serious Things Quotes

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

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

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about. — Niels Bohr

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

Funny how in really serious moments people always say the stupidest things. — Lauren Oliver

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

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. — Rob Portman

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

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

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences. — Auliq Ice

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

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. — Helen Fielding

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

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life. — Mark Ruffalo

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

I have serious things to do now. I have a living to give away. — George Eliot

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

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. — Louise Rennison

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God. — Martha Beck