#earnest

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

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#always #been #completely #devoted #earnest

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#chief concern #christian #concern #earnest #humble

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

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#dress #early #earnestness #extra #fancy

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

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#career #degree #earnestly #fits #himself

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#cooperation #earnest #justice #peace #people