We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. — Nicholas Culpeper Copy Share Image
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason. — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall 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
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image