Vain Quotes - Page 24

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  Uffie

  Stupid, Struggle

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and intelligence, but there's pretty privilege in the world - that's a reality. When I was a kid, in middle school, I started going to thrift stores and dressing myself. It was about announcing to the world who I was. That's what fashion was for me, as a kid. You might have an idea of who you think I am, but I'm going to tell you through my fashion choices who I am.

  Laverne Cox

  Fashion, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not a vain thing, and it's not an "I don't like the way I look" thing. It's people truly being creative. It's a way of making your mark and making a statement, and I love that. Beauty is making a statement in whichever way you choose to do so, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  Ayesha Curry

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Beauty and makeup are not things people should think of as vain. It's an expression of yourself and can be seen as an art form as well. Also, it just makes people feel good because they're taking care of themselves. Anything you do to take care of yourself will inevitably make you feel better. That's the effect makeup has.

  Olivia Culpo

  Art, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Watch Olivia Culpo Break Down Her Crazy-Effective Skincare Routine in This Exclusive Video". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. December 3, 2015.

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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.

  Shane Black

  Men, Profession

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• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Dream, Hope

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151

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• But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Despair, Whole

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.167, Verso

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• And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

  Aeschylus

  Blood, Hands, Flow

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• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Fancy

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• Nature does nothing in vain.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Doe

  Aristotle (2002). “Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals”, p.260, Clarendon Press

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• Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

  Jane Austen

  Husband, Wife, Literature

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.187, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  P. T. Barnum

  Children, Men, Needs

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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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• I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

  Saul Bellow

  Aging, Glad, Havens

  "In Bellow's shadow" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2000.

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• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, People, Ego

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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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 cook it, which is handy.

  Jo Brand

  Healthy, Mackerel, Cooks

  "What's in your basket, Jo Brand?" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

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• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

  Andre Breton

  Example, Appeals, Good Examples

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• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hope, People, Politics

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

  Demosthenes

  Speech, Action, Empty

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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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• Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

  Leonhard Euler

  Believe, Math, Order

  "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.

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