Serious Quotes

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.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

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.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.