We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. — Anacreon Copy Share Image
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
