#serious

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#locks #many #mississippi #mississippi river #most

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#bible #go #mad #must #seriously

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#affects #chicago #class #down #going

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#i #man #saving #serious #very

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#painting #portrait #serious #styles #two

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #eight #half

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #belief #broaden #broken #certain

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#cannot #like #partnership #religion #sanction