Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Jorge Luis Borges

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dean Gilmour

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

Rick Carlisle

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player, ... He's been here the last two summers working out with summer league players. It's something he has a liking for.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Zara Phillips

I'm an affectionate person.

David Whyte

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

John Humphrys

In fact nobody has ever complained about the sorts of things I say because it is done with affection and is obviously light-hearted,

Wayne Fields

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

William Shea

I'm both gratified and a little surprised at the on-rush of sentiment and affection for him that we've seen. You would suppose that in these circumstances a lot of hyperbole goes on, and I'm just not seeing that. This affection for Tim pre-existed these circumstances.

Barack Obama

I think that given how closely divided the court is and given the magnitude of some of the decisions that will probably be coming down during the course of his tenure on the court that I will be flying blind a little bit. There's no way to tell how his judgments will come down on some of these critical issues.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

Nick Hardwick

I'd kind of go in blind and be fine in college, ... But now I've got to know what's going on ---- my opponent's every move and being able to see what the defense is going to do before it's going to happen. But that just happens through film study.

William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.

Walter de La Mare

So, blind to Someone I must be.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Curtis Chong

If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

John Cornyn

I just think it was a blind spot in the process of BRAC, but now maybe these developments, showing how in response to disaster, a natural disaster like Rita and Katrina, that it has an important role to play. Maybe this will help us make our case.