Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being – especially a vain one like ‘Castle’ -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
I’m not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
I’ve had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I’m game. I’m game for that kind of thing. I’m certainly not too vain in that respect. If it’s a great role, I’m willing to do whatever it is that it takes.
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
When you do things they’re absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take away something from any mistake that you made in life, so it’s not been in vain.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
I’ve actually done a cover of ‘Train in Vain’ by The Clash with Viv Albertine – which was originally written about her.
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
