The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
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
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
