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The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
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.
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.
I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.