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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.
— Natalie Dormer
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
— Colin Meloy
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
He was one of those earnest, persevering dancersthe kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. — P.G. Wodehouse
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
— Charles Dickens
All you earnest young men out to save the world ... please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A question asked in earnest deserves an earnest answer.
— Christopher Moore
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.
— Richelle Mead
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
— Walton Goggins
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
— Bion Of Borysthenes
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
— Christopher Moore
The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very "there." The pig brought gravity and mythic import to this well-worn fairy tale.
— Robert Fulghum
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.
— Joseph Devlin
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
— Nenia Campbell
I just really like it when things are earnest.
— Jenny Slate
Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.
— Laura Gilpin
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
— Frank B. Kellogg
No one can define success for you, but you.
— Earnest Robinson Jr.
In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.
— Andrew Murray
Earnest young knights are my favorite. I love the looks on their faces when they realize that they're being slow-cooked in their own armor.
— Jessica Day George
I am in earnestI will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.
— William Lloyd Garrison
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
— Noam Chomsky
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
— Joaquin Phoenix
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
— Jonathan Edwards
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
— Emilio Estevez
Kami has to give him points for being mature. He looked at her, blue eyes earnest, and she had to give him many more points for being charming.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
— Barbara Demick
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
— Earnest Hooton
When I wake up every morning, I think to myself, Today my life will begin in earnest.
— Gaito Gazdanov
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.
— Frederick William Robertson
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
— William McDonough
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
— Oscar Wilde
My chief concern is to try to be a humble, earnest Christian.
— J. Steven Wilkins
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
— Henry David Thoreau
Theur is no friend as loyal as a book.
— Earnest
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.
— James O. Fraser
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.
— John Keats
If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.
— Sherry Thomas
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
— Oswald Chambers
Satan is so much more in earnest than we arehe buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost. — Amy Carmichael
Both sides of me were in dead earnest.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
— Bruce Feiler
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
— Joanna Russ
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
— Gregory Maguire
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
— Eisaku Sato
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.
— Kristen Stewart
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
An earnest prayer is more powerful than a strong army.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
— Charles R. Swindoll
My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
— C.S. Lewis
The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Whatever good work you begin to do, beg of God with most earnest prayer to perfect it.
— Benedict Of Nursia
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
— Susan B. Anthony
Apart from new dreams, opportunities, love and blessings in new places, it's God's most earnest desire to give you a new life.
— Jamie Larbi
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
— Randy Pausch
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
— William Watson
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
— Kevin DeYoung
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest
— Charles Spurgeon
Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life's earnest goals
— Rajasaraswathii
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
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.
— Peter Of Alcantara
If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch,
— Eileen Myles
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16 NLT
— Dianne Neal Matthews
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
— Ellie Kemper
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[E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
— Gary Rohrmayer
