I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.… — Adriana Trigiani 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
“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best,… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Lincoln?” she asked. “Yes?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
