serious consideration Quotes

Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

We should see the [Kosovo] war as a valuable opportunity. Never before have the Europeans or the Americans taken us so seriously.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

I have studied the situation gravely and I think I understand it well.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

If the World Seniors led to a place directly into the Crucible, then I would take it very seriously because to play there again would be incredible.

The demands of Germany may require too much sacrifice of the rights of others for them to be granted, but for the peace of the world they must be considered with the utmost seriousness, and it is difficult to escape the conclusion that sooner or later some of them will have to receive satisfaction.

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.