#serious

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #language #seriousness #men

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

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. ↗

— John Blair

#capitalism #communities #enough #ever #fool

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#hate #i #music #pop #pop music

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