Serious Things Quotes - Page 3

• The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sight, Cities, Sound

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

  Aldo Leopold

  Adventure, Self, Leisure

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• 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

  Laughing, And Love, Moments

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• I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what they imply on the part of the writers. The last tells me that I am a Pharisee, and should have helped to crucify our Lord. It is very odd that people should think, much more write, such things; but the passion of unbelief is a very serious thing while it lasts.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

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• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, People, Relaxation

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Life, Art, Beer

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• I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

  Jean Michel Jarre

  Fun, Thinking, Light

  Danish "Monitor" radio programme interview, November 30, 2005.

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• There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Regret, Anger, Men

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• Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

  John Schuerholz

  Irritation, Serious, Emotion

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• I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

  John McGahern

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

  Louise Rennison

  Exam, Still Life, Stills

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

  Plato

  Opposites, Understood, Laughable

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Team, Serious, Injured

  "PSG v Bayer Leverkusen - as it happened!" by Toby Moses, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.

  Vannevar Bush

  Moon, Men, Skills

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• 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

  Thinking, World, Comedy

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• 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

  Drama, School, Lady Macbeth

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• Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Respect, Inspire, Feelings

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• I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Thinking, People

  William Faulkner (1955). “Mosquitoes”, New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.

  Bill Maher

  Jealous, Hard Times, Player

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• Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

  Thomas Moore

  Friendship, Loss, Long

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