If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe,… — William James Copy Share Image
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You Mademoiselle are hardly in a position to remonstrate. The entire world has no doubt been at your feet from the cradle.”… — Susan Johnson Copy Share Image
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“Then he strode right over and, in one smooth motion, insinuated himself into the bed next to me, facing me, under the… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“Ah woe is me, how sad a thing Is life within this vale of tears, Death’s angel triumphs like a king, And… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Dahvie Vanity is on our radar here at 'Have a Seat with Chris Hansen' and I promise you I'll take a really… — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
