Unrelentingly Serious Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us. — George Harrison

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams. — Roger Scruton

The monsters are gone."
"Really?" Doubtful.
"I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do. — Fiona Wallace

It indebts me to them. I abhor the feeling of being indebted to anyone. — Sara Wolf

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. — Sam Altman

Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul. — William Batchelder Greene

Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture. — SonReal

A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way. — Radhanath Swami

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design — Dieter Rams