Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
Ana Gasteyer
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard
I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'
Ben Hopkins
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Benjamin Harrison
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.
Chuck Palahniuk
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
Jarvis Cocker
I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
Jenny Slate
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
John Strachan
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
Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.
Jonathan Krisel
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Marc Webb
We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.
Marie Antoinette
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
Matt Lauria
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
Mindy Kaling
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
Miranda Raison
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
Earnestness makes British people gag.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
