Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.” — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.” — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind… — Jean Anouilh 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
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others… — James Russell Lowell 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
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy. — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer… — William Gibson 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
Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
