All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal,. . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty. . . . We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
Eliminating the death penalty. . . will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.
Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.
I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.
The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.
Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent. ' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.