Vain Quotes - Page 20

• I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sky, Rainbow, Shining

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.644

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• I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting 101...In my classroom, the students get every ounce of encouragement and craft and anything I'm able to give them.We have some rules. We don't take the name of The Lord in vain. We don't use foul language when we mess up on camera...There's a climate of safety...They feel very protected.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Encouragement, Class, Names

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

  Nhat Hanh

  Climbing, Mountain

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• It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

  Emma Goldman

  Tunes, Revolution, Inspired

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

  Herbert Hoover

  Blessing, Political, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

  Dolly Parton

  Dog, People, Looks

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

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• I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

  Joan Baez

  Kids, Thinking, Answers

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• Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Evil, Perfect, Mind

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• It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Speak, Judgment, Scene

  Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Vanity, Why Not

  "YES I use Botox, NO I am not gay: Simon Cowell's frankest interview" by Jenny Johnston, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 17, 2007.

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• It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Eye, Writing

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• Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Emotional, Effort

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• I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Hate, Thinking, Looks

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

  Torquil Campbell

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

  Torquil Campbell

  Dog, Kindness, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

  Isaac Watts

  Sacrifice, Blood, Christ

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.95

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• Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Independent, Ideas

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• Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

  Janet Fitch

  Prayer, Eye, Orange

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Animal, Men

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• Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

  Greg Proops

  Swans, Piglet, Lenses

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• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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• Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

  Pope John Paul II

  Life And Love, Revenge, Heart

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• When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

  Richard Halverson

  Biblical, Roots, Forget

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• Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Love Life, Voice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.178, Editora Dracaena

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