#earnest

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

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

— Joaquin Phoenix

#earnest #everyone #many #movies #purpose

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#chicago #earnest #ernest #frank #man

A man must earnestly want. ↗

— William Frederick Book

#man #must #want

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#earnestly #sense #some

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#carried #earnestly #end #every #guise

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#energy #speaks #vibe #you