Vain Quotes - Page 24

• I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vanity, May, Speech

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.11, Penguin

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• Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

  Rosie Batty

  Children, Voice, Domestic Violence

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• There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I think the starting is the most important thing. It takes courage. It takes a lot more courage than any vain feat of arms, let me tell you. It takes a lifetime to become a fool, and only a moment to begin to become wise.

  Peter Danielson

  Wise, Courage, Thinking

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• Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

  Karl Barth

  Idols, Doubt, World

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• The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

  Kanye West

  Vanity, Ideas, Kilts

  "Will Kid Cudi's Coachella crop top start a new hip-hop fashion trend?" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Humble, Doe

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• To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

  Henry Drummond

  Ambition, Caring, Men

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• Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sad, Men, Ideas

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  Gary Numan

  Jobs, Vanity, Hair

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• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

  Susan Orlean

  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Wedding, Men

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• Clichés so often befall vain people.

  Ann Beattie

  People

  Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

  Tracey Gold

  Believe, Reason, Happens

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• Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

  Howard Cosell

  Arrogant, Obnoxious, Pompous

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• I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

  Danny Glover

  Believe, Involvement

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• I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Attention

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• Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Air, Sea

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• Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

  Peter Ustinov

  Music, Unique, Pavarotti

  The Independent, September 12, 1993.

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• I find that men are far more vain than women.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  W. C. Fields

  Names, Four, Letters

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• And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

  Antonio Porchia

  Looks, Path, Ifs

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, God, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to do with your expectations and your desires. You just let it come in; don't block the way. Remove yourself out of your own way. This time, with no expectations, no desires, no hopes, just meditate.

  Rajneesh

  Block, Expectations, Waiting

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