Serious Quotes - Page 27

• If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.

  Bernard Lewis

  Israel, Long, Size

  Bernard Lewis (2010). “Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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• I am serious about not being serious.

  Elliott Erwitt

  "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.

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• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  Walter Pater

  Religious, Art, Age

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today.

  Corazon Aquino

  Country, Disappointment, Today

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• My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Wise, Struggle, Past

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• I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

  John Newcombe

  Stay Calm, Trying, Littles

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• One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

  Pope Francis

  Temptation, Pessimist, Disillusioned

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.89, SPCK

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• If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.

  Pope Francis

  Art, Past, Creating

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• Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

  Edmund Husserl

  Dream, Philosophy

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• I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Debt, Levels

  "Jon Huntsman Moves To Shed Obama Brand By Aligning With House GOP On Medicare, Debt Ceiling" By Jon Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption.  But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation.  It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.

  Pat Robertson

  Hate, Pride, Gay

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1998. Two months after Robertson's warning, Hurricane Bonnie detoured around Orlando but slammed into Robertson's own headquarters city, Virginia Beach, Va.

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• By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Mean, Order, Anarchist

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press

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• When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Half, Trouble, Treats

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• We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Lying, Worry, Matter

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• You can be serious without a suit

  Larry Page

  Suits

  "After Facebook: the film, look out for Google: the movie" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Team, Serious Things, Injured

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

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• When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Sex, Couple, Kissing

  Adam Thirlwell (2004). “Politics”, Random House

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• Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between [that] reputation . . .  and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.

  Elisabeth Guigou

  Sex, Men, Differences

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• Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Sex, Would Be, Problem

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• You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

  Maya Angelou

  Hell, Boring

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" with Anderson Cooper, transcripts.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

  Andrew Weil

  Blood, Ideas, Balance

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• I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious.

  Max Cleland

  Political, Information, Pressure

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• Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Prison, Thinker

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2014

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• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Serious Business, Toys

  Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376

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• When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Lying, Political, Politics

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