quotes about Earnestness
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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Time and pains will do anything.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
-- Heinrich BöllSource : Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
-- Marc WebbSource : "Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
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“Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story”
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“People have to respect intellectual property.”
Source : "Chinese pop stars protest piracy". www.wired.com. April 04, 2002.
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“I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?”