Vain Quotes - Page 31

• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.528, Charles Dickens

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• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Lamps, Waste

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

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• You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

  Inge Lehmann

  Men, Ignorant People, Incompetence

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• You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Stars, Light, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

  Kevin Costner

  Differences, Making A Difference, Sound

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• I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fun, Thinking, Abuse

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Lonely, Superhero, Overcoming

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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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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• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Delight

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

  Lucretius

  Men, Long, Atheism

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• Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Light, Years

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• Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

  Lucretius

  Rocks, Air, Atheism

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• The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

  Paul Kurtz

  Promise, Atheism, Belief

  Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”

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• Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all his life for the sin of being born into a non-capital-owning family... One searches it in vain for measure designed to provide economic opportunity to the capital owner. But nobody proposes to educate, train, or rehabilitate either him or his children, even when their "unemployment" is notorious.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Children, Opportunity

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• Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.

  Peter Padfield

  Philosophy, Struggle, Past

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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