Top Serious Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Serious quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of David Wong
Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.
- David Wong
Collection: Serious
Image of Steven Moffat
Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.
- Steven Moffat
Collection: Serious
Image of Robert K. Greenleaf
The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee
- Robert K. Greenleaf
Collection: Serious
Image of Chetan Bhagat
Don't be serious, be sincere.
- Chetan Bhagat
Collection: Serious
Image of Os Guinness
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
- Os Guinness
Collection: Serious
Image of Alan Arkin
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
- Alan Arkin
Collection: Serious
Image of Joseph O'Neill
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?
- Joseph O'Neill
Collection: Serious
Image of John Edgar Wideman
Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.
- John Edgar Wideman
Collection: Serious
Image of Steve Miller
You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.
- Steve Miller
Collection: Serious
Image of George Coyne
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God.
- George Coyne
Collection: Serious
Image of Hedrick Smith
Only if enough ordinary Americans speak up and demand better from both their employers and their government is the system going to get fixed. But first of all, we have to understand how serious the problem is.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Serious
Image of Manohla Dargis
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
- Manohla Dargis
Collection: Serious
Image of Paul Vixie
Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
- Paul Vixie
Collection: Serious
Image of Steve Lillywhite
I am completely serious. When I decide to do something, I decide to really do it.
- Steve Lillywhite
Collection: Serious
Image of Andrew Rannells
I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.
- Andrew Rannells
Collection: Serious
Image of Tanika Ray
I have someone. He's 25. It's nothing serious.
- Tanika Ray
Collection: Serious
Image of Steve Coogan
The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.
- Steve Coogan
Collection: Serious
Image of John Scott
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
- John Scott
Collection: Serious
Image of Michael Beschloss
You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.
- Michael Beschloss
Collection: Serious
Image of Elliott Erwitt
I am serious about not being serious.
- Elliott Erwitt
Collection: Serious
Image of Bryan Ferry
As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
- Bryan Ferry
Collection: Serious
Image of Olivia Palermo
I’m a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me.
- Olivia Palermo
Collection: Serious
Image of Teresa Giudice
From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.
- Teresa Giudice
Collection: Serious
Image of Cliff Morgan
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.
- Cliff Morgan
Collection: Serious
Image of Julian Jaynes
For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.
- Julian Jaynes
Collection: Serious
Image of Robert Payne
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
- Robert Payne
Collection: Serious
Image of Momus
When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine if you had a script that was imposed on your life - we all do in a certain way, from society, or family, the need to make money, biology, death. But you will have a certain latitude, or freedom, to read the script in your own way.
- Momus
Collection: Serious
Image of William Monahan
I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
- William Monahan
Collection: Serious
Image of John Irving
Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.
- John Irving
Collection: Serious
Image of Melvin Helitzer
I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.
- Melvin Helitzer
Collection: Serious
Image of Michelle Gielan
I've learned to stop being so serious!
- Michelle Gielan
Collection: Serious
Image of Jason Reece
The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.
- Jason Reece
Collection: Serious
Image of Stephin Merritt
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
- Stephin Merritt
Collection: Serious
Image of Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place.
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Collection: Serious
Image of Damien Lemon
I always say this: If you a dude texts you after 2 a.m. and you reply, then you will never get called at 8 p.m. He won't take you serious.
- Damien Lemon
Collection: Serious
Image of Manny Montana
I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.
- Manny Montana
Collection: Serious
Image of John J. Legere
I've given my email address to all 3,000 T-Mobile stores. Serious customer escalations come directly to me. Customers get a kick out of me responding to them, and the employees do, too.
- John J. Legere
Collection: Serious
Image of R. D. Laing
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
- R. D. Laing
Collection: Serious
Image of Paul Wernick
It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.
- Paul Wernick
Collection: Serious
Image of Pedro Winter
To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.
- Pedro Winter
Collection: Serious
Image of Idra Novey
Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.
- Idra Novey
Collection: Serious
Image of Britta Phillips
I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.
- Britta Phillips
Collection: Serious
Image of Wilton Daniel Gregory
There are many serious and knotty issues that I must face each day, but the Pope Francis reminds me by his example and his words that Christ has already redeemed creation and we are saved, even when that might not be so obvious because of the world's many problems and our own grievous sinfulness.
- Wilton Daniel Gregory
Collection: Serious
Image of John McEnroe
You cannot be serious!
- John McEnroe
Collection: Serious
Image of Anthony Joshua
If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.
- Anthony Joshua
Collection: Serious
Image of Rajneesh
Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Serious
Image of Philip Roth
I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.
- Philip Roth
Collection: Serious
Image of Hubert Selby, Jr.
I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Collection: Serious
Image of Oscar Wilde
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Serious