Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“After a lifetime spent in earnest earnest then what? After chasing after just such, it would have grinned even wider, if old… — George Wier Copy Share Image
Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a… — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination… — George Washington Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say… — James Whistler 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
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer… — Charles Dickens 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
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
I definitely prefer things to be dark, I definitely prefer things to not be particularly obvious. I like a lot of mystery… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy.… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
