Top 1200 Serious Issues Quotes & Sayings

Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I going to put food on the table tomorrow? That's what I've got to worry about, and so on. It's very serious, but it's hard to bring out the enormity of these issues, when they do not have the dramatic character of something you can show in the movies, with a nuclear weapons falling and everything disappears.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and choose today to take our stand on the moral issues which threaten us.

Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces, right, we got a collapsing middle class. We have more wealth and income inequality today than we've had since the 1920s. We have all of these enormous issues.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.

Issues related to investor-state disputes are a matter of serious concern. It is something which we have to apply our minds to.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.

I don't know if I even consider myself a very political person. I have always had strong beliefs on important social issues. Politics have politicized social issues, but I don't know if social issues are in fact political. If anything, they are more human issues than they are political issues.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.

I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.

But because media is what media is today, any stupid, absurd remark made by Donald Trump becomes the story of the week. Maybe, just maybe, we might want to have a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America. Donald Trump will not look quite so interesting in that context.

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.