Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

Ferdinand de Saussure

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Edward Castronova

One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Edsger Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dom DeLuise

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

David Nicholls

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Jack Bruce

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Mason Cooley

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.