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
I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over… — Wallace Shawn 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
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken 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
Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet… — Lavrentiy Beria Copy Share Image
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
“Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot 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
