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332 Earnest quotes by 265 unique authors

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career… — Jimmy Carl Black
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in… — Julianna Baggott
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear… — Christopher Guest
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
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. — Ellie Kemper
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations… — Frank B. Kellogg
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. — Frank B. Kellogg
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me… — Mark Twain
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. — Ford Madox Ford
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts… — Janet Reno
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. — Benjamin Disraeli
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. — Plautus
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. — Virginia Woolf
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. — John Milton
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains… — Max Muller
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously. — Thomas Nagel
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers… — Theodore Roosevelt
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of… — Harold Washington
It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. — John Muir
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ,… — C. I. Scofield

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