Top 35 Serious Matters Quotes

#1. Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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#2. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

George Washington

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#3. We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Mary Renault

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#4. I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.

Guy Jenkin

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#5. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.

Meghna Pant

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#6. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Cato The Elder

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#7. It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.

Gordon Dahlquist

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#8. Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

Socrates

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#9. Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Horace

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#10. Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Philip K. Dick

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#11. Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles to ravish the local girls, or boys, or sheep, whatever takes your fancy for all I care, and leave serious matters to your elders.

Andrew Ashling

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#12. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Lord Chesterfield

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#13. People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Edward Abbey

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#14. The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#15. The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair ... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

Chuck Schumer

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#16. 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

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#17. When a volcano erupts, people get surprised, but it is a volcano! There is no 'place' for the surprise! The biggest problem with people is that they are not serious about the matters of life and death! Be serious or alternatively lose your existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#18. If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Kevin McCarthy

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#19. She'd wanted so badly to kiss Nat Sullivan. To prove she wasn't a victim anymore. To prove she was normal. Ha!

Toni Anderson

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#20. Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Richard P. Feynman

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#21. 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

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#22. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.

Daniel H. Pink

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#23. I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Michele Bachmann

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#24. Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

Walter Kirn

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#25. Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Freeman Patterson

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#26. Are you serious right now?" Hailey asks. "What's wrong with saying his life matters too?" "His life always matters more!" My voice is gruff, and my throat is tight. "That's the problem!" "Starr!

Angie Thomas

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#27. The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

Benedict Of Nursia

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#28. The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

Erich Fromm

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#29. I'm not sure we can understand another country if we don't understand our own.

Gloria Steinem

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#30. So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

Bindi Irwin

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#31. My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

Prince William

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#32. Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Tracy Austin

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#33. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

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#34. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

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#35. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

Serious Matters Quotes #32220

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