Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and… — Rosie Batty Copy Share Image
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
