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I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere. Ronda Rousey

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

T. S. Eliot

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

A. A. Milne

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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.

Diane Arbus

I find that men are far more vain than women.

Patricia Arquette

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Andre Breton

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

John Strachan

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Winchell

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

Abbey Clancy

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

Colin Kaepernick

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

Lena Dunham

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.

Jane Austen

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

Josiah Royce

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Quintilian

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I made just about every mistake a person could make before God came into my heart. If some of those painful experiences can help someone avoid the same mistakes I made, then perhaps my heartache was not totally in vain.

Delilah

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Wallace Shawn

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

James McHenry

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Kenneth Branagh

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Mika Waltari

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Dennis Chavez

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

John Lahr

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Dennison Prentice

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Mike Gravel

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

William Alexander