Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. — John Shaw Billings 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
Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind… — Jewel Staite Copy Share Image
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.… — Solomon Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds… — Chris Sligh Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain,… — Bill Skarsgard 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
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
