However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world’s largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research – but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
It may be vain to care too much how you look, but it is impolite to care too little. You do a generous thing for the world when you present yourself properly.
I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
I’ve never liked my smile, you see. I should have had braces as a kid, but I was too proud and too vain. And I didn’t want to be bullied at school.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
I’m so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at ‘American Pie.’
In the heady days that followed the success of ‘Mahabharat,’ I was young, vain and didn’t care much about the story. But in the next two decades, I read a lot on the epic.
Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.
World’s use is cold, world’s love is vain, world’s cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
You’ve got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they’ll be worshipped by future generations.
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
I find that men are far more vain than women.
I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance.
I’m too vain to go on TV. I’d be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I’ve got a ridiculous voice – I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster’s.
I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
It really annoys me that I’m vain, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to discard that tendency.
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.
I’m vain.
I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of looking fabulous every time, and I care about it a great deal. I’m very vain.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I’m not vain. In fact I don’t like looking at myself. The face-lift was just about looking rested.
I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I’m not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I’m not so vain.
Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.
I have my insecurities, and some days you don’t want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don’t notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it’s all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most – it can be your arms, your chest, your legs – and emphasize that.
I have been vain since birth.
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
I’m not very keen on ageing. I’m not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues – to be modest and well-behaved. I’m totally wrong for show business.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
I don’t think I’m vain… but I do like to be lit well.
I don’t believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
It’s so rare, actors who are not vain.
I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
I used to be terribly vain. I’d spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I’d look nice.
I’m vain, I can be vain!
I’m always looking for something that’s real and that’s got meat on it. I think it’s artistic suicide if you’re too vain, or if you’re afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
