“I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.” CoursesSocialEconomicSeriousDevelopmentCitizensCommitmentMeetingsOilBudgetsGasComponentsRevenueFundingProgrammesEconomic DevelopmentOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.” MindLooksStatesShowsLastsJusticeSeriousBirthRegardTablesCourtMeetingsCloudsEnvyGravesDistinctionGamblingMelancholyAlliancesAssemblyAgitateSolicitudeRancor Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.” KnowsMenWayShowsMightReligiousLordWifeFailingSeriousDutyAnxietyMeetingsPrivilegeVariousNeglectPardonMisgivings Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse
“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.” PeopleWorldNeedsLooksKindCausesChristPleasureHellSeriousMeetingsGladTreasure Book:Don't Waste Your Life Source: Don't Waste Your Life
“Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.” HumansTogetherLostForceInterestSeriousMeetingsConsiderationCustomsNeverthelessTopicsAssemblyExaltedAdmittingContention Author:Felix Adler
“The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.” WorldProblemChallengesSeriousCapableMeetingsWideRangeAgencyInherentUnitsSalvage Author:Norman Cousins
“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.” WantShouldCoursesIssuesSeriousEqualMajorsAgreeUnionsMeetingsClimateWesternClimate ChangeDialogueOfficialsCollaborationOur RelationshipTopicsWant USummitEuropean UnionDiplomatsPompous Author:Yoweri Museveni
“[Baz Luhrmann] is very serious - he wants it done and he wants it done accurately. He was in the studio actually when I recorded "Everybody's Free." I remember meeting him and him being amazed by my voice.” WantDoneRememberVoiceSeriousMeetingsStudiosAmazed Author:Quindon Tarver