Serious Quotes - Page 39

• Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Doors

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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• ....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

  Patricio Aylwin

  Decide Upon, Might, Today

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• The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

  Al Gore

  Meaningful, Keys, Speaks Out

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• Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Religion

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• If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Needs

  Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Mark Hyman (2013). “The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Weakness, Faults

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

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• It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Scary, President, Firsts

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, Organization, America

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind

  Peter Forsyth

  Religious, Fashion, Taken

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• Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Wisdom, Children

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 23, 1595.

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• Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

  Becky Stark

  Meaningful, Sadness, Comedy

  "Lavender Diamond Seeks World Peace". Interview with Jake Coyle, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2007.

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• But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

  Susan Estrich

  Running, Tuesday, Waiting

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• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  School, Serious Business, Mark

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• In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Secret, Mind, Remember

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• There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

  Al Yankovic

  Paris, People, Kevin

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• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

  David Remnick

  Running, Independent, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Cousin, Laughter, Stress

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Dog, Fart

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• I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

  Dom DeLuise

  Serious Person, Play, Fats

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

  Roland Joffe

  Stupid, Home, Serious Person

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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