The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've only had a sit-down encounter with Robert once, and that one conversation was the best advice that I have gotten from… — K.Michelle Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which… — Georg Prochaska Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
