#earnest

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#always #am #cane #derby #desperate

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bridget #bridget jones #caribbean #cruises #earnest

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#earnestness #face #face value #media #people

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concerned #consists #earnestly #faith

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #heard #i #i am

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#consequences #earnest #men #who

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire