Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

John Cleese

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

Mary Wortley Montagu

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Martha Graham

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Dan Gilroy

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Dar Williams

What do you love more than loveWhen you question what your desire is forWhen you don't just figureThat you just want more.

Roland Thornqvist

There aren't 10 players better than Alexis. She has the deep-down desire to turn pro and, without a doubt, she has the potential to make money.

Gerard Hopkins

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

Sam Baker

I discussed with Nate our desire for him to remain as the voice of the Eagles. I was disappointed when he respectfully declined.

Robert Collier

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

David Bennett

We think he can. I hope we wouldn't have given him a scholarship if we don't think he can. He's a talented young man. He's got a lot of grit to him. He's a little fighter.

James T. Walsh

We think given what they know now they have sufficient money to get through the year.

Casey Long

We took every shot that was given to us. If it was open, it had to go in. That's the way we felt. We'd worked too hard for it not to.

Bill Doba

We've given up some yards and we've got to get that locked in.