#earnest

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

— Eisaku Sato

#earnest #hope #may #nuclear #nuclear weapons

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hard #know #right #wishes

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. ↗

— Chuck Berry

#earnest #how #intentions #learn #much

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#believers #conscience #earnest #even #judgment

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#earnestness #life #will #you

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

#began #big #career #deal #divorced

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

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

#am #because #certified #did #earnest

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

— Gene Tierney

#career #earnest #i #impatient #serious

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

#aims #always #around #because #comedy