Serious Quotes - Page 29

• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

  War, Blow, Iraq

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• I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

  Eve Arnold

  Journalism, Realizing

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

  Antoine Bechamp

  May, Morbid, Injection

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• The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beach

  "Elon Musk Says Crack Helps Him Survive on No Sleep" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Stupid, Silly

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Stars, Mistake, Men

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• I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Mind, Crisis, Firm

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress, or that's what you look to That kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Attitude, Government

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Light, Risk, Prejudice

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• One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.

  Jim Sasser

  Jesus, Tables, Want

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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

  Ed Markey

  Data, Analysis, Matter

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• Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

  Steven Morrissey

  Simple, Laughing, Serious Business

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• Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Self, World

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• Nobody's more serious about health and fitness than me and staying fit is my top priority, That's why I've teamed up with Medifast to bring my fans a line of products that are packed with everything the body needs to get in better shape and improve their health. I use the products every day as part of my training.

  Ray Lewis

  Priorities, Training, Lines

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• For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

  Justin Guarini

  Years, Collaboration, Albums

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• Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Funny, Sex

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• The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

  Derek Barton

  Firsts, Chemistry, Application

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• We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Triumph

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past six years. And what about people who have lost friends and comrades in war? Golf is a game. You've got to keep that in perspective.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Brother, Father, War

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• No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Speech at the General conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Heaven, Church

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• If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Input, Increase

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• Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

  Alan Greenspan

  Thinking, Credit, Problem

  "Quote of the Day – 10.23.08" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

  Henry Paulson

  Thinking, Problem, Mortgage

  “Meet the Press”, www.nbcnews.com. August 10, 2008.

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• A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

  Stella Gibbons

  Wish, Looks, Noses

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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