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vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity glasses shining
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. William Shakespeare
vanity funeral world
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235, Joseph Farrell
literature behemoth bigs
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell
literature computer internet
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry
literature stones teeth
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
literature genes type
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
literature language speak
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. David Quammen
complacency gains conscious
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency. Alice James
complacency reform obstacles
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. Diane Ravitch
complacency products
Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success John P. Kotter
complacency earth guilty
Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth. Tom Brown, Jr.
complacency equal acceptable
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. Joseph Addison
complacency able cliche
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. John Hawkes
complacency familiarity
Familiarity breeds complacency. Rick Warren