#vain

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ↗

— Lord Byron

#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#conscious #pavarotti #unique #vain

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

#battle #constitution #correct #declaration #did

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#brothers #committed #equality #his #labors

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

— Demosthenes

#action #empty #speech #unless #vain

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes. ↗

— Selena Gomez

#caught #chair #done #get #hair

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. ↗

— David Hilbert

#having #methods #mind #most #part

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ↗

— Carl Jung

#hands #intellect #mystery #often #solve