#serious

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #bloody #consequences #easy #horrifying

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

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#being #born #catholic #culture #italy

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#easy #forward #i #looking #looking forward

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#image #obsessed #seriously #should #take

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#laws #once #proper #serious #writing

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. ↗

— Hans Kung

#change #church #community #division #few

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#men #military #much #serious #thing