#serious

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#came #daring #i #i am #life

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#endeavor #equipped #i #i believe #must

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going. ↗

— Allen West

#back #back up #coming #country #debt

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #good #optimism #pretend #seriously

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#blocs #both #cannot #clinton #danger

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#decided #down #explained #how #i

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#drama #fun #head #hit #hoodwink

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#big #competition #everyone #feet #had

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. ↗

— Venus Williams

#first #i #job #seriously #sister

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. ↗

— Panayiotis Zavos

#achieve #ambition #because #bodies #correctly