“I think of the way James proposed, at our favorite New York City restaurant. He'd tucked the ring in his pocket and… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose,… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest child. I was not funny. I would get laughed at for my earnestness, so I learned to… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right. — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness. — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
