Quotes of: Earnestness Keyword

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.

Louis Farrakhan

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

Dave Barry

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.

Richard Engel

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

Amy Carmichael

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.

Kara Swisher

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

John Woolman

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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

The Man With Two Left Feet

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

Voices of the Night

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

How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Spending moments with another in earnest presence is one of the simple ways we can show unconditional love. It is the memories created from these impressions that survive after all else passes.

Molly Friedenfeld

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.

Robert South

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

Maggie Q

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,...

Debbie Macomber

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.

John Lancaster Spalding