Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

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.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

C. S. Lewis

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

Charles Darwin

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

Alfred Kinsey

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

Sergio Aragones

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Daniel Barenboim

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

E. O. Wilson

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

E. O. Wilson

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

David Ricardo

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

Granth Sahib

Our Lord and Master is all-pervading everywhere. What should I say, and what should I hear? O my Lord and Master, You are Great, All-powerful and All-knowing.

H. Hart

We need the Lord in our lives. I get my strength from His word and His people.

C. S. Lewis

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Guru Singh

I am a sacrifice to those who meditate on the Lord night and day.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who recites the sermon of the Lord s Teachings.

David Reutimann

He got in the wall. Thank the Lord I missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.

Rig Veda

May we become the lord of virtuous power and strength.

O. Singh

Meeting their Beloved, they meditate on the True Lord with love and affection.