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
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I'm the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
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All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show… — Jane Fonda 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
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
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I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
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Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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![“Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary…” quote by Martin Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/martin-rees-3002_asks_charles-darwin-is-my-personal-favorite-f_1991343.jpg)
