... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them… — Isaac Hecker Copy Share Image
Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me . How is… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as… — Maria Montessori 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
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of… — John Green 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
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
