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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
profound oracles portraits
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future. Bill Brandt
profoundly zero
It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity. Patrick Rothfuss
profound
If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out. David Kim
profound mind observation
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
profound soul able
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls. David Brainerd
profound feelings body
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives Audre Lorde
profound saying utterly
What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards. Steve Crump
profound metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts. Catherynne M. Valente
profound important acting
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. Blythe Danner
veins want wannabes
If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Andrew Williams
veins acid batteries
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Chuck Palahniuk
veins lessons
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. Cyril Connolly
veins hitting mainstream
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. Jim Jarmusch
veins exhausted
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one. Henry David Thoreau
veins slides kind
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. George Herbert
veins venus obsession
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. Jean Racine
veins language wave
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Jean Cocteau
veins poisonous
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins. Holly Black