(45 quotes found)
“Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it”
Phillip Brooks
“Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.”
Corita Kent
“[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails.”
Susan Sontag
“Cosmo's always had a really authentic voice -- there's no B.S.. We don't have that earnest voice that a lot of women's magazines do.”
Kate White
“We should listen in earnest to what other cultures offer, ... Dialogue is not easy.”
Mohammad Khatami
“We are going to come in and make a real earnest attempt at the first two opportunities to [Kennedy]. If we can't make it there, we will be looking at Edwards.”
LeRoy Cain
“While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its way down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.”
L. Frank Baum
“The skirts are shorter. In most productions of 'Earnest,' you would rarely see ankles on stage.”
Kate Lowder
“I earnestly want Nelson County residents to know how open I am to getting their input.”
Jon Ryan
“The widening gap between urban and rural areas should be dealt with in real earnest. For those farmers who already have lost land in this process, we should give them job training and social services.”
Chen Xiwen
