Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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.

Alan Cohen

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

Arthur C. Clarke

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Arianna Huffington

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

J. B. Smoove

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

Gerry Spence

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Kate DiCamillo

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Joely Fisher

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

Lev Grossman

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Marshall McLuhan

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

Bible Bible

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Joel Edgerton

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Charles R. Swindoll

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Beth Moore

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

Bruce Miller

What makes him so good is he's such a good kid on top of that, ... I've seen a lot of kids move in and say, 'When's my glory coming?' That's not Kendrick.

William Shakespeare

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

LaDainian Tomlinson

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

Blaise Pascal

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.