Serious Quotes

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

Great design is serious, not solemn

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

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

You cannot be serious!

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Life is too short to be serious

It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.