Quotes of: Earnestness Keyword

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

Henny Youngman

On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, tra...

Essays with a Purpose

, a collateral form of (the so-called "holy war"), taken [by Sufis] to mean "earnest striving after the mystical life." The term is based on the Koranic text, "And they that strive earnestly in Our cause, them We surely guide upon Our paths." A Tradi...

Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam

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

Walton Goggins

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Blaise Pascal

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

Bruce Feiler

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

Matt Lauria

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Joaquin Phoenix

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

Chuck Berry

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Kim Cattrall

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

Gene Tierney

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

The Importance of Being Earnest

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mindy Kaling

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

Ellie Kemper

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Georg Buchner

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

Tran Duc Luong

Do not fear the conflict, do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity, that is, in diff...

My Life in Christ: Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God: Extracts from the Diary of St. John of Kronstadt

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Black Beast