Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Ince

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Thomas Gray

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Swami Vivekananda

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Norman Schwarzkopf

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Michael Kelly

You should never, ever use profanity because it is rude.

Takeo Hiranuma

It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy,

Scott Rosenberg

His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

David Garrow

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

William Wordsworth

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.