#serious

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#men #military #much #serious #thing

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #face #feel #field #get

Play so that you may be serious. ↗

— Anacharsis

#play #serious #you

Yellow usually means it's not that serious. ↗

— Bobby Unser

#serious #usually #yellow

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#had #i #life #need #nothing

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#american #government #i #israel #know

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#going #less #seriously #take #work

I find it odd that people take me seriously. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#i #me #odd #people #seriously

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#capote #journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i