#serious

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

If you are not serious, people will sense it. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#sense #serious #will #you

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#certainly #christian #desire #first #first of all

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. ↗

— William Nicholson

#began #chosen #form #i #novel

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor. ↗

— Chad Smith

#jazz #sense #sense of humor #serious

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fiscal #government #our #overall #pay

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#government #serious #democracy

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#serious #humor

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#being #comic #i #mind #quite