“The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“That's a handsome maid," he said to Oak. "But she has her faults," said Gabriel. "True, farmer." "And the greatest of them… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case 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
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . .… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” “Then why do you weep as… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
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