Top 1200 Serious Issues Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

I'm a very laidback sort of guy, but people assume I am a serious actor and a serious person. That is not true.

We need a new leader in Congress who will represent the issues that Donald Trump ran on because they were the winning issues.

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

I'm very serious about my career. If someone feels that I carry a serious heroine tag, so be it.

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it.

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's really serious and a bit weird. But it's so bizarre that we were convicted at all.

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the media. It means that we are a more questioning society, perhaps more honestly prepared to address serious issues and problems, more open to the idea that different viewpoints should be heard and respected.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

I always feel that comedy, at its best, tackles issues that are controversial, polarizing, volatile, and sheds light onto those issues and the people involved.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.

I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So, of course, I was not too serious covering such things as Motörhead or "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But I was serious enough about Led Zeppelin and the Celtic song "Wild Mountain Thyme." In my life, serious and humor are always together.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

Everyone has issues, but they're always talking about my issues.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.