I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance… — Daniel Berrigan 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
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too… — Henry James Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
“A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image