Vain Quotes - Page 23

• It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Doe, Goes On, Useless

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• Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Succession

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• The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Jesus, Father, Soul

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• Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

  Francesco Redi

  Belief, Experiments

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• Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, Mind

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• People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, People, Envy

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• You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!

  Sophia Amoruso

  Looks, Enough, Therapy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while particularly in the case of Sybrina Fulton, they've become celebrities and people forget that they've become celebrities because of the death, the murder of their child. So I wanted people to see the burning desire for these women to live their child's legacy, to not let their child have died in vain, so they're fighting to stop the violence.

  Ed Gordon

  Mother, Children, Fighting

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.

  Jeremiah Wright

  People, Heaven, Sound

  "Jeremiah Wright on Obama, Religion and Racism". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Vanity, Age

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• You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

  Tim Kaine

  Responsibility, Looks, Apologizing

  Source: www.politico.com

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• State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of deregulation) seek in vain the individual solutions to the socially fabricated life problems.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Fate, Impact, Government

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Kindness, Believe, Ambition

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Christian, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.

  Martin Schulz

  Children, Couple, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Vanity, Focus

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that crap - developers, realtors, various money people - have kicked back waiting for the system to get going again, to resume all their accustomed behavior. They wait in vain. They just haven't figured out that we face a new disposition of things.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

  Evander Holyfield

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I've only had a sit-down encounter with Robert once, and that one conversation was the best advice that I have gotten from any individual in the music industry. R Kelly told me that as long as I write life and not music I will always have a job. He listened to several of my records and told me that they were great records and for that to come from a man who has produced hit after hit gave me a comfort and reassurance that making honest and good music was not in vain.

  K.Michelle

  Writing, Men, Long

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for saying African-Americans are living in Hell? Did he apologize for saying President Obama was not even a citizen of the United States? You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologizing.

  Tim Kaine

  Fun, War, Responsibility

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Soldier, Honor

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. It's like, "Put on some makeup, make me look good. Okay, now I'm going to roll my shoulder." Part of me still feels like, "Wow, that's weird for a man to do."

  Shane Black

  Makeup, Men, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Art, Distance, Creativity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

  Alexa Chung

  Mother, Growing Up, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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