Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's… — John Newton Copy Share Image
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain,… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do… — Evariste Galois Copy Share Image
Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
