Quotes with serious

Quotes 61 till 80 of 161.

  • Herodotus If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Balaban If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bart Gordon If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Dedman If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Woodward If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer — now that's serious business.
    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernie Sanders If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Mary Pickford If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
    Mary Pickford
    Canadian film and theater actress and film producer (1892 - 1979)
    - +
     0
  • Leon Trotsky In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • H.G. Wells In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Don Herold It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
    - +
     0
  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Pope John XXIII It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
    - +
     0
  • Carla Bley It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brit Hume It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
All serious famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)