Top 100 Serious Matter Quotes
#1. Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
John Terraine
#2. Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts.
Joe Pitts
#3. This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.
Michele Bachmann
#4. If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !
Laure Lacornette
#5. I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
Lionel Stander
#6. There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.
Julien Torma
#7. Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
Ian McKellen
#8. Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.
Bruce Sterling
#10. You can lose a piece of plain bread and not think twice about it, but when you lose one spread thickly with strawberry jam it's an altogether more serious matter.
Alexander McCall Smith
#11. Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter - Georgina about
Richelle Mead
#12. There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.
Alexandre Dumas
#14. Getting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even more serious.
Nicolas Bentley
#15. At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#16. Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.
Dave Barry
#18. Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.
Carl Sagan
#19. The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
Ed Markey
#21. Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.
Jan Hunt
#22. And it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.
Victor Serge
#25. Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
John Steinbeck
#26. When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras
#27. We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
Julian Assange
#28. To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. Our dreams are a serious matter. When you take them seriously, everyone else does too.
Marilyn Hilton
#30. Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
Howard Dean
#31. They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.
Eugene V. Debs
#32. Personal happiness is always a very serious matter.
Sheena Iyengar
#33. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.
Thomas Merton
#34. Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#35. Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
William Carlos Williams
#36. Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.
John Creasey
#37. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.
Bethany Brookbank
#38. For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.
Julie Davis
#39. It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.
John Cassian
#40. A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
Nelson Mandela
#41. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.
Kristen Henderson
#42. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?
Quentin R. Bufogle
#43. I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.
Douglas Rushkoff
#44. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
George Washington
#45. I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.
Brandy Norwood
#46. Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#47. Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.
Robert P. McCulloch
#48. I've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore. I think I'm kind of past my prime to do dramatic films. I think it'd become kind of like almost a pathetic cry out to be recognized as a serious drama actor.
Sylvester Stallone
#49. The German communist party, for years the strongest outside the Soviet Union itself, was broken in a matter of a few months. Its defeat was a serious blow to the prestige of the international communist movement.11
Timothy Snyder
#50. I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.
Jim Carrey
#51. Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
Cheryl Hines
#52. I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.
Ice Cube
#53. Sam was saying it didn't matter, but it kind of did, too.
"Save your kraut poetry for Grace," I said, after a pause. "You're getting your weird all over me."
"I'm serious," Sam said.
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.
Grete Waitz
#55. If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
Jeannine M. Luby
#56. You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#57. A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
Will Rogers
#58. Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Douglas Adams
#60. Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
#61. What he sounded like. Desperate. But it didn't matter. "I'm serious." His voice was cold. Menacing even. He didn't like it when people made fun of him. "I need to find her. You have a problem with that?
J.C. Reed
#62. I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.
Jeffrey Jones
#63. I'm serious. They'll call me a pussy."
"And if you help them, I'll call you a dick. So no matter what you do, you're going to be some form of genitalia.
Kody Keplinger
#64. Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Horace
#65. We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.
Pope Francis
#67. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.
Derek Holland
#69. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
Cato The Elder
#70. No matter how much I may love - scratch that, loved, past tense - Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure.
Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure.
On his larynx.
Gemma Halliday
#71. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.
Ali Sina
#72. 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
#73. And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
Peter Drucker
#74. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
#75. I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
Andy Rooney
#76. If you're really serious about protecting people's incomes, you've got to consider how you're going to protect the dollar. If you don't have the dollar maintaining its value, no matter where you put the money you're not going to have any value.
Ron Paul
#77. To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
Ian Frazier
#78. If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
Jack Bruce
#79. I give Finn a wicked smile. "Don't you think a peg leg would be charming? Like a pirate? The first mate of the Calypso had one, didn't he?"
"It would add a certain rakish factor. Have you got a spare eye patch?"
"Be serious, you two. Gangrene is no laughing matter," Mrs. O'Hare scolds.
Jessica Spotswood
#80. It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.
John Walford
#81. Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
Mohsin Hamid
#82. It has long been a matter of serious moment that for decades we have studied the various peoples of the world and those who live as our neighbors as objects of missionary endeavor and enterprise without being at all willing to treat them either as brothers or as human beings.
Howard Thurman
#83. I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not
what I was writing.
Thom Yorke
#84. I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.
Barbara Kingsolver
#85. A serious student of any instrument who really worked hard could usually learn to play that instrument at the 85 percent level, no matter what the difficulties, he told her, but the last 15 percent on any instrument requires "something out of the ordinary" from a player.
Mary Sue Welsh
#86. In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.
Sarah Polley
#87. Were men everywhere to ignore the things that matter little or not at all and give serious attention to the few really important things, most of the walls that divide men would be thrown down at once and a world of endless sufferings ended.
A.W. Tozer
#88. No matter the outcome, having completed a series of MBA applications in a serious, thoughtful way is a real achievement.
Linda Abraham
#89. Robbery is a serious, shameful matter, Captain Blood." "I know it is. I've practised a good deal of it myself.
Rafael Sabatini
#90. I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
Bill Murray
#91. No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.
George Q. Cannon
#92. At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.
Henry Cuellar
#93. Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.
Colin McGinn
#94. I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
Maya Angelou
#95. I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact ... except for my father. That was my duty.
Stieg Larsson
#96. I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
Eve Arnold
#98. In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.
Barbara Forrest
#99. 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
#100. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
