Seriousness Quotes
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Seriousness Quotes & Sayings
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What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you.
— Jackson Lanzing
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The cross shows the seriousness of our sinbut it also shows us the immeasurable love of God. — Billy Graham
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning ... look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
— Bernie Glassman
Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
— Nicholas Butler
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
— Grayson Perry
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
— G.K. Chesterton
I understand the seriousness of concussions.
— Peyton Manning
seriousness, young man, is an accident of time
— Hermann Hesse
most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.
— Glenn Michaels
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..
— Thomas Szasz
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
— Giuseppe Verdi
Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door.
— Terry Pratchett
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
— Anthony Bourdain
Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.
— Auliq Ice
Yes, well, I tried seriousness once and found it made my butt look fat. Who wants to live like that?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster.
— Nick Harkaway
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
— James Gray
God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
— Julian Barnes
The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.
— G.K. Chesterton
Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself. — Margery Allingham
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
— Joyce Carol Oates
And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Boobs on the make always try to impress with their high level of seriousness (wise guys, with their contempt for all seriousness.
— Pauline Kael
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.
— Gloria Steinem
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
— Tim Duncan
The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.
— Bernie Glassman
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
— David Brainerd
If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.
— Auliq Ice
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
— Donald Cargill
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
— Albert Camus
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde
Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.
— Dmitriy Ustinov
Toraf nods in all seriousness. "Humans eat sand. That's why they spend so much time on land".
— Anna Banks
Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;
— Gunter Grass
Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
— Alexander Waugh
Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".
— Ronald Reagan
What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Someone tells me I've been touched by Jesus, I remember.""Not Jesus," he said in all seriousness. "The hand of God. — Gretchen McNeil
exclaimed with ponder. Half nodded with comprehensive seriousness. "In direction of boil." "How did I understand
— Philip Wilson
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
— G.K. Chesterton
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
— Elliott Abrams
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.
— Baltasar Gracian
If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.
— Vanessa Friedman
Seriousness is a disease of the ego
— Stuart Wilde
Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.
— Gichin Funakoshi
Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country.
— Stephen Crabb
In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.
— Julie Klausner
You can't be serious," I said."Not on a regular basis, no. — Leigh Bardugo
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
— Rachel Nichols
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
— Heinrich Boll
What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?
— Jeff Lindsay
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.
— Friedrich Nietzsche