. . . I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.
We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my. . . arms. " Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she begins identifying what one might called "philosophical friends," - people with whom one could seriously examine our thought about God through listening to each other, reading important and useful books together and trying to think for oneself while familiarizing oneself with the ideas of some of the world's great thinkers. Cultivate openness without gullibility and skepticism without cynicism.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?