44 Quotes About Vain

"Vanity is the only sin that attracts attention." - Voltaire

A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is...
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Cowley
Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not...
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Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace Cassandra Clare
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A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way. Ana Claudia Antunes
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes...
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes Virginia Woolf
How can I shut down If you don't open up??
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How can I shut down If you don't open up?? Ana Claudia Antunes
He did not waste time in a vain search for...
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He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history. Dejan Stojanovic
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
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It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. Dejan Stojanovic
No one was created in vain
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No one was created in vain Sunday Adelaja
Do not spend your time on vain things
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Do not spend your time on vain things Sunday Adelaja
If we don’t do anything to change the lives of...
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If we don’t do anything to change the lives of our people and our country, we live a vain life Sunday Adelaja
Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as...
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Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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O woman, father says natural is beautifulso why do you redden your cheeks and blacken your eyes? Why do you remove the hair on your legsand draw them into your brows? Why do you hold your breathlest your stomach showand hold your fartlest they knowthat you’re a human? O woman, father says natural is beautifulso why do you straighten your hairto curl it nextand pretend to orgasm so they think you enjoyed the sex? Why do you dumb yourself downand push your breasts up? Why do you smile when you’re told toand love when you don’t want to? When? When will you stop, woman? Father says natural is beautifulbut that is doubtfulfor what does father knowhe’s only a fellow. Kamand Kojouri
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Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions. Israelmore Ayivor
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And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own. Kamand Kojouri
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Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. Israelmore Ayivor
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This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. John Fowles
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He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand. Jess C. Scott
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Believe me when I say: 'Out of all those around, she’s the best locksmith in town.' Her stethoscope ears know when the dials of your heart click into place. She’s been cutting keys for years. You don’t stand a chance with that flimsy case. Alas, no matter how you lock your heart– bolt, fixture, and key– she’s got nimble fingersthat pick locks for free. Padlocks and deadboltsare all in vain. Why do you even botherwith that chain? She’s way too smart. Along with ours, she’ll have your heart. And you will see that the best locksmith in town is she. Kamand Kojouri
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Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside. Suzy Kassem
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When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. He had solemnly promised the Jews that he would take them from Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He had led them to believe that in a little while their troubles would be over, and that they would soon in the land of Canaan, surrounded by their wives and little ones, forget the stripes and tears of Egypt. After promising the poor wanderers again and again that he would lead them in safety to the promised land of joy and plenty, this God, forgetting every promise, said to the wretches in his power:–' Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander until your carcasses be wasted.' This curse was the conclusion of the whole matter. Into this dust of death and night faded all the promises of God. Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home. Millions of corpses were left to rot in the desert, and each one certified to the dishonesty of Jehovah. I cannot believe these things. They are so cruel and heartless, that my blood is chilled and my sense of justice shocked. A book that is equally abhorrent to my head and heart, cannot be accepted as a revelation from God.When we think of the poor Jews, destroyed, murdered, bitten by serpents, visited by plagues, decimated by famine, butchered by each, other, swallowed by the earth, frightened, cursed, starved, deceived, robbed and outraged, how thankful we should be that we are not the chosen people of God. No wonder that they longed for the slavery of Egypt, and remembered with sorrow the unhappy day when they exchanged masters. Compared with Jehovah, Pharaoh was a benefactor, and the tyranny of Egypt was freedom to those who suffered the liberty of God.While reading the Pentateuch, I am filled with indignation, pity and horror. Nothing can be sadder than the history of the starved and frightened wretches who wandered over the desolate crags and sands of wilderness and desert, the prey of famine, sword, and plague. Ignorant and superstitious to the last degree, governed by falsehood, plundered by hypocrisy, they were the sport of priests, and the food of fear. God was their greatest enemy, and death their only friend. It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god. He is without a redeeming feature. In the mythology of the world he has no parallel. He, only, is never touched by agony and tears. He delights only in blood and pain. Human affections are naught to him. He cares neither for love nor music, beauty nor joy. A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous:–such is the God of the Pentateuch. . Robert G. Ingersoll
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Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose! Israelmore Ayivor
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Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God! Israelmore Ayivor
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Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, ' She is as vain as a man, ' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray
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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful creatures in all the world, and magic besides. They mate very rarely, and no place is more enchanted than one where a unicorn has been born. The last time she had seen another unicorn the young virgins who still came seeking her now and then had called to her in a different tongue; but then, she had no idea of months and years and centuries, or even of seasons. It was always spring in her forest, because she lived there, and she wandered all day among the great beech trees, keeping watch over the animals that lived in the ground and under bushes, in nests and caves, earths and treetops. Generation after generation, wolves and rabbits alike, they hunted and loved and had children and died, and as the unicorn did none of these things, she never grew tired of watching them. Peter S. Beagle
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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: .. Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life. . Unknown
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It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. Anthony Liccione
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Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. John Green
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The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions Sunday Adelaja
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Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. Kellie Elmore
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God would never make man in his image, because that would then make him as vain as what man is. Anthony T. Hincks
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I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this. .. I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer. .. ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.) Gillian Flynn
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If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. Anthony Liccione
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A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution. Suzy Kassem
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My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the prestige of the conqueror and backed by British bayonets, Christianity is not supported by the converts themselves. Every bit of Protestant Christianity in India is maintained partly by the money flowing from England and America, and partly by taxes imposed upon the Hindus against their will, which must be paid although the people st . Virchand Gandhi
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If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections. Kamand Kojouri
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You may have misery, ” she continued, ignoring my plea, “you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness. And that is a constant, dear.” She breathed deeply and steadily for a moment, seemingly catching her breath.“ No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.“ And you will know honest happiness. Of that I am certain. Certain because it’s why you are here and also because here is your inevitability. Fisher Amelie
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Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I can’t do that, ” he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street.“ Why not?” His face softened. “I need his money.” Spencer looked at me and I couldn’t help but stare back. We were all in the same boat, prisoners to GREED. Fisher Amelie
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. Unknown
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Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film). Deyth Banger
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Clichés so often befall vain people. Ann Beattie
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Nature does nothing in vain. Aristotle