Earnestness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes. — Deb Caletti

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that! — Steve Maraboli

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson

Sam was almost grateful for his fleshy buttocks. Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go, he thought. — George R R Martin

Men are a race of suckers who don't realize that having sex is the biggest risk they'll ever take. — A.S.A Harrison

He was increasingly aware these days of how much he owned, of the ongoing effort his life required. The thousands of trips to the grocery store he had made, all the heaping bags of food, first paper, then plastic, now canvas sacks brought from home, unloaded from the trunk of the car and unpacked and stored in cupboards, all to sustain a single body. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Your very presence makes other people feel awkward. You stand out when in fact you'd rather not. — Rachel Hartman

Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress. — John Mark Reynolds

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead. — David Adam

I loved horses and horse books as a child. — Meg Rosoff

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. — Isaac Asimov

Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic. — Granger Smith

Some people were born just so they could be buried. — Donald Ray Pollock