Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins. — Blackie Copy Share Image
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Do everything in earnest--if it is worth doing, then do it with all your might. Above all, keep much in the presence… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself,… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically,… — Rob Jackson Copy Share Image
Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. — William Watson Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
