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- I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to… — Jo Brand
- SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce
- Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin
- The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share… — George Arthur Buttrick
- It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
- Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman
- Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a… — Margaret Weis
- 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
- I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his… — George MacDonald
- It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — William P. Young
- I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.