Quotes about Earnest

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Votes: 4

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Votes: 4

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. Votes: 4

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian. Votes: 4

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. Votes: 4

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. Votes: 4

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? Votes: 4

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. Votes: 4

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. Votes: 4

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Votes: 4

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. Votes: 4

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. Votes: 3

The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. Votes: 3

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. Votes: 3

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. Votes: 3

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side. Votes: 3

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term. Votes: 3

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! Votes: 3

I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it. Votes: 3

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off. Votes: 3

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton. Votes: 3

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past . Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen. Votes: 3

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Votes: 3

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. Votes: 3

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few." Votes: 3

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. Votes: 2

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Votes: 2

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. Votes: 2

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. Votes: 2

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. Votes: 2

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy. Votes: 2

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Votes: 2

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. Votes: 2

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 2

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. Votes: 2

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 and peoples. Votes: 2

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! Votes: 2

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society? Votes: 2

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. Votes: 2

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives. Votes: 2

The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy. Votes: 2

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. Votes: 2

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. Votes: 2

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man Votes: 2

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. Votes: 2

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. Votes: 2

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. Votes: 2

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. Votes: 2

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least. Votes: 2

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue. Votes: 2

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory) Votes: 2

My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free. Votes: 2

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. Votes: 2

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. Votes: 2

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. Votes: 2

Life is earnest, art is gay. Votes: 0

It would be terribly boring to be earnest. Votes: 0

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. Votes: 0

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized. Votes: 0

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. Votes: 0

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. Votes: 0

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. Votes: 0

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. Votes: 0

A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Votes: 0

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume. Votes: 0

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest. Votes: 0

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest. Votes: 0

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons Votes: 0

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. Votes: 0

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. Votes: 0

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. Votes: 0

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Votes: 0

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation. Votes: 0

This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest. Votes: 0

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. Votes: 0

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest Votes: 0

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. Votes: 0

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. Votes: 0

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. Votes: 0

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. Votes: 0

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker. Votes: 0

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect. Votes: 0

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them. Votes: 0

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. Votes: 0

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. Votes: 0

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'. Votes: 0

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh. Votes: 0

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. Votes: 0

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. Votes: 0

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. Votes: 0

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. Votes: 0

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. Votes: 0

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. Votes: 0

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time. Votes: 0

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. Votes: 0

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end Votes: 0

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Votes: 0

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. Votes: 0

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest. Votes: 0

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious. Votes: 0

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature. Votes: 0

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. Votes: 0

Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. Votes: 0

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. Votes: 0

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. Votes: 0

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. Votes: 0

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. Votes: 0

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! Votes: 0

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Votes: 0

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love. Votes: 0

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. Votes: 0

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while. Votes: 0

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. Votes: 0

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. Votes: 0

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. Votes: 0

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. Votes: 0

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. Votes: 0

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. Votes: 0

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection... Votes: 0

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered. Votes: 0

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. Votes: 0

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not. Votes: 0

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. Votes: 0

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not Votes: 0

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt. Votes: 0

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. Votes: 0

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness Votes: 0

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. Votes: 0

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. Votes: 0

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you. Votes: 0

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. Votes: 0

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally. Votes: 0

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. Votes: 0

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. Votes: 0

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. Votes: 0

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. Votes: 0

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Votes: 0

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called. Votes: 0

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. Votes: 0

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. Votes: 0

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy Votes: 0

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness. Votes: 0

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. Votes: 0

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. Votes: 0

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. Votes: 0

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. Votes: 0

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy. Votes: 0

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all. Votes: 0

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Votes: 0

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle. Votes: 0

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. Votes: 0

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. Votes: 0

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. Votes: 0

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously. Votes: 0

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost. Votes: 0

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance. Votes: 0

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. Votes: 0

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory Votes: 0

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest. Votes: 0

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do. Votes: 0

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Votes: 0

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation. Votes: 0

I opened my eyes and met his dark, earnest gaze. "It's okay," I said. "It's okay now. I'm here I'll always be here for you. Votes: 0

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision. Votes: 0

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded. Votes: 0

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life. Votes: 0

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. Votes: 0

People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them. Votes: 0

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. Votes: 0

The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush. Votes: 0

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty. Votes: 0

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Votes: 0

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach. Votes: 0

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 Chicago. Votes: 0

If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest. Votes: 0

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities. Votes: 0

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor. Votes: 0

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting. Votes: 0

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food Votes: 0

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. Votes: 0

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. Votes: 0

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star. Votes: 0

If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman. Votes: 0

I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home. Votes: 0

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. Votes: 0

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. Votes: 0

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. Votes: 0

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. Votes: 0

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men. Votes: 0

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete. Votes: 0

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. Votes: 0

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power. Votes: 0

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. Votes: 0

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable. Votes: 0

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. Votes: 0

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. Votes: 0

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire Votes: 0

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other. Votes: 0

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science. Votes: 0

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth Votes: 0

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 had on the Bible. Votes: 0

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest. Votes: 0

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made. Votes: 0

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 to reduce crime and violence. Votes: 0

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. Votes: 0

Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love? Votes: 0

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. Votes: 0

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. Votes: 0

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once. Votes: 0

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time. Votes: 0

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... Votes: 0

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers! Votes: 0

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will. Votes: 0

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth. Votes: 0

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy. Votes: 0

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it. Votes: 0

David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest Votes: 0

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though. Votes: 0

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. Votes: 0

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare. Votes: 0

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it. Votes: 0

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards. Votes: 0

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. Votes: 0

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form. Votes: 0

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success. Votes: 0

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual. Votes: 0

Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man with his high spiritual claims in a place of importance in the cosmic scheme. Votes: 0

You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. Votes: 0

Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves. Votes: 0

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. Votes: 0

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way. Votes: 0

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you. Votes: 0

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. Votes: 0

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. Votes: 0

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate. Votes: 0

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth. Votes: 0

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal. Votes: 0

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial. Votes: 0

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, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. Votes: 0

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun. Votes: 0

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself? Votes: 0

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure. Votes: 0

Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet. Votes: 0

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. Votes: 0

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination. Votes: 0

Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad. Votes: 0

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. Votes: 0

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so. Votes: 0