Vain Quotes

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

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.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

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

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.