Serious Quotes - Page 29

• By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

  Wallace Stegner

  Memories, Mind, Tools

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.12, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You could have told me earlier.” “You seemed so serious about the game. I didn’t want to bother you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Games, Want, Bother

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.173, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Hands, Want

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.202, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

  Toni Morrison

  Disability, Ifs

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Car, Liberty

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.148, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

  12 Copy quote

• When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Laughing, Looks, Absurd

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

  John Irving

  Suicide, Sorry, Crazy

  17 Copy quote

• I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Flower, Dark

  7 Copy quote

• You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

  Howard Pyle

  Laughter, Thinking, Land

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

  David Nicholls

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.34, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be serious, be sincere.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Sincere

  FaceBook post by Chetan Bhagat from Nov 13, 2014

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or the complimentary type or what. No one can look at you in this dress, in all that fire and gold, and start talking about anachronisms. If I were him, I would have said, 'You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Emotional, Fire

  4 Copy quote

• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Laughter, Fun

  8 Copy quote

• It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, World, Logic

  6 Copy quote

• Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open." I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Mistress, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.200, Zebra Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Artist, America, Way

  6 Copy quote

• Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.

  Rajneesh

  Long, Joy, Doe

  12 Copy quote

• God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Foundation, Energy

  13 Copy quote

• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  Walter Pater

  Religious, Art, Age

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.24, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.

  Pope Francis

  Art, Past, Creating

  5 Copy quote

• Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

  Edmund Husserl

  Dream, Philosophy

  13 Copy quote

• I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption.  But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation.  It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.

  Pat Robertson

  Hate, Pride, Gay

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1998. Two months after Robertson's warning, Hurricane Bonnie detoured around Orlando but slammed into Robertson's own headquarters city, Virginia Beach, Va.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Mean, Order, Anarchist

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Lying, Worry, Matter

  4 Copy quote