Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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 Simmons

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 Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Beyonce Knowles

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

William Shakespeare

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

Diane Kruger

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Eileen Caddy

Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

Dana Delany

I have faith in my imperfections!

Juvenal

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Augusten Burroughs

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Baltasar Gracian

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Asa Gray

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Alain de Botton

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Blaise Pascal

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Laura Anderson

I thought he'd split if he saw me, but he just looked at me and took another mouthful of bird feed from the ground. I banged on the glass thinking he'd just run right off, but he looked up at me as though I'd annoyed him.

Paul Lambert

I was annoyed to lose the goal with 30 seconds till half-time because I thought we were in it at 1-0.

Emily Stoecker

I was annoyed that he got to read them. This guy, they've really coddled him.