Vanity Quotes

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

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• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Iran

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Now

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Seems
  • Wash

• I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• My joy is as painful as my pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain
  • Joy

• I'm happy, everyone's happy. It's the best goal I've ever scored.

  

  William Gallas
  • Happy
  • Goal
  • Scored

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Friend
  • Hair
  • Kitchen

• The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Future
  • Financial

• O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

  

  Vanity
  • Earth