Serious Quotes

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

All serious daring starts from within.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Play so that you may be serious.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.