#serious

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#bargaining #doing #giving #iran #juvenile

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #i #maybe #pole #pope

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#anything #chi #go #i #live

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#commercial #doll #even #i #kid

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#anyone #consistently #does #himself #laugh

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#amusing #chaplin #charlie #could #course

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. ↗

— William Collins

#easily #him #humor #i #i can

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#childbirth #days #depression #few #first