Earnest Quotes - Page 14

• 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

  Effort, Humanity, Causes

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

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Desire, Made, Accomplished

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• 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.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, Cynical, Negative

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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

  Eisaku Sato

  People, Nuclear, World

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• 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.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Wall, Names

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

  John Hodgman

  Serious, Fiction, Tradition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Ambition, Safe

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.369, Courier Corporation

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

  Ford Madox Ford

  Simple, Sight, People

  Hueffer, Ford Madox (2014). “Ancient Lights And Certain New Reflections Being The Memories Of A Young Man”, p.158, Read Books Ltd

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• 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

  America, Effort, Community

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Sometimes, Nonsense

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

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• The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

  Annie Dillard

  Made, Jest, Solemn

  ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

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• If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

  Plautus

  Jest, Turns, Fairs

  "Amphitruo". III. 2. 39,

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Brave, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Humor, History

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Great Things

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

  Max Muller

  Law, Deeds, Glory

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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

  Thomas Nagel

  Real, Goal, Ridiculous

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• 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. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, College, Men

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• 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.

  Harold Washington

  Race, People, Chicago

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• It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

  John Muir

  People, Hot, Enthusiasm

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.269, e-artnow

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• If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?

  C. I. Scofield

  Christian, Running, Sacrifice

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• Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Ironic, Want

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Demand, Revision

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4543, e-artnow

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• 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.

  David First

  Song, Fun, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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