Quotes of: Earnestness Keyword

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Frank B. Kellogg

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?

Matt Dillon

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.

Robert Dale Owen

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

Anna Camp

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

The Importance of Being Earnest

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert E. Lee

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.

Frederick William Robertson

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.

Janet Reno

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.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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.

Elton John

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

Frank B. Kellogg

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

Emilio Estevez

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.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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.

Frank B. Kellogg

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.

William Lloyd Garrison