I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. — Oscar Wilde 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
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest,… — John Ruskin 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
The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. — Plato 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
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
