She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity & rareness of such a fiery… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a… — Veronica Lake Copy Share Image
“I can’t do that,” he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street. “Why not?” His face softened. “I… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image