Derided By Vanity Quotes

#1. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

James Joyce

#2. If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated.

Wayne Dyer

#3. 'But it's weird, right? It's like we're a gay bug zapper and all the gays keep flocking to us because they think we're bright and shiny, but all I want to do is electrocute most of them because they annoy the crap out of me with their high-pitched whining.'

T.J. Klune

#4. A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

Ziggy Marley

#6. A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.

Demetri Martin

#7. Business was successfully concluded. But - strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.

Nikolai Gogol

#8. I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?

Cameron Richardson

#9. I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

Leslie Nielsen

#10. There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Mike White

#11. Life always teaches us more than the Road to Santiago...But we don't have much faith in what life teaches us.

Paulo Coelho

#12. If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.

Bobby Jindal

#13. Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

Paul Auster

#14. you'll know you're hitting a groove when grocery shopping becomes less stressful and more focused (you actually have a list and no real reason to veer from it).

Kate Payne

#15. I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

Patti LaBelle

#16. If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

Carole King

#17. Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Kevyn Aucoin