88 Earnest Quotes for You to Enjoy

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. Bruce Feiler

Parenting Hate Confession Earnest Books Repetitive Here

It is my earnest hope that all parties across the political spectrum will bear Hong Kong's long-term interests in mind, apply their political wisdom, and seek a consensus through open and rational communication with people of different views. Carrie Lam

Wisdom Hope Communication People Political Mind Will Earnest Seek Bear Rational Through Open Long-Term Parties Kong Political Spectrum Different Interests Across Views Apply Consensus Spectrum

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. Christopher Walken

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I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. Claire Danes

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The John McCain I first started to get to know in earnest was the one who had just returned to the U.S. Senate after losing the 2000 Republican presidential primary. Dana Bash

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When you look at other good-bad movies like 'Sharknado' and 'Birdemic,' those movies know that they're B movies, know that they're silly and over the top, as opposed to 'The Room,' where Tommy Wiseau, the guy at the centre of it all, he attempted to make a very earnest drama. Dave Franco

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

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By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. Emilio Estevez

Believe Earnest Definition Am Optimistic

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it. Fabrizio Moreira

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There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. Frank B. Kellogg

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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

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. Frederick William Robertson

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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. Gene Tierney

Sometimes Earnest About Impatient Serious Career

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience. Geoff Dyer

Experience People Earnest Side Bit Always Thick

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end. Georg Buchner

Stage Earnest Always End Even

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

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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. Jean Anouilh

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I just really like it when things are earnest. Jenny Slate

Earnest Like Just Really Things

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen. Jim Parrack

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I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that. Jimmy Carl Black

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. Joaquin Phoenix

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After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. John Biddle

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I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton. John C. Reilly

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