A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard 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
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too.… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest… — Friedrich Schleiermacher 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
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
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
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde 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 true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid… — John Donne Copy Share Image
