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.

Saint Augustine

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Wilkie Collins

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

Walter Scott

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Walter Scott

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

David Lee

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Bible Bible

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Confucius

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

Rob James-Collier

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard Dawkins

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

Russell Baker

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

Umberto Eco

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Regina Spektor

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood.

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Maxwell

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.