Serious Quotes - Page 14

• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

  John Steinbeck

  Laughter, School, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.436, Penguin

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• A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Order, Inward

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• Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction." Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. "This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you will be sorry." "Oh, I'm crazy, alright. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion Cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Running, Sorry, Crazy

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• Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

  T. S. Eliot

  Sawdust, Muttering, Restless Nights

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

  Stephen King

  School, Class, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

  John Marsden

  Teacher, Kids, Hands

  John Marsden (1999). “Darkness Be My Friend”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

  Derek Landy

  Faces, Wells, Skulduggery Pleasant

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.79, HarperCollins UK

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• The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  People, Sentimental, Smirk

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Confused, Doctors

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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• You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

  Lewis Carroll

  Cutting, Battle, Knows

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 4: Tweedledum And Tweedledee, 1871.

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• How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Tests, Tricks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press

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• Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

  Steven Brust

  Two, Effort

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• A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

  Jules Verne

  Talking, Wagers, Englishmen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.16, Jules Verne

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• a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

  Philip Roth

  Jobs, Father, Ambition

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• Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

  Rollo May

  Country, Communication, Views

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• If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Littles, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1188, Dell

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• I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

  Roland Merullo

  Hurt, Drawing, Broken

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• I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

  Umberto Eco

  Watches, Television, Scholar

  "Umberto Eco, 1932-2016". Obituary by Marvin Olasky, world.wng.org. February 20, 2016.

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• I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.

  Tamora Pierce

  Spring, Yellow, Looks

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.315, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Would Be, Little Bee

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm getting a girlfriend soon," said Michael in a serious tone, and everyone laughed. "You've got plenty of time for that, kiddo," said his father. "No need to rush." "Well, I don't want a boyfriend, Daddy," said Madeline. "Boys are dirty, and they make a mess when they eat." "I'd imagine the six-year-old ones would." Xavier chuckled. "But don't worry, they get better at it.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Girlfriend, Father, Dirty

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• How does this whole guardian angel business work? Am I the only person who can see you? I mean, are you invisible to everyone else?" Patch stared at me like he hoped I wasn't serious.    "You're not invisible?" I squeaked. "You have to get out of here!" I made a movement to push Patch off the bed but was cut short by a searing jab in my ribs. "She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!"    Patch grinned. "I can fly."    Oh. Right. Well, okay.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mean, Angel, Cutting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

  Richelle Mead

  Memories, Eye, Passionate

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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