Top 28 Vain Hopes Quotes
#1. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.
David Gaider
#2. While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.
Helen Maria Williams
#3. Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
#4. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#5. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#6. But love had a funny way of giving you faith in the one who loved you back. And nothing was guaranteed in life, neither riches nor health. At the end of the day, you just had to let yourself go ... and the best place to land was in the arms of a good man.
J.R. Ward
#7. We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.
Anthony Michael Hall
#8. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to Power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
#10. 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
#12. Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini
#13. We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
Melody Beattie
#14. Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body
Vsevolod Pudovkin
#15. Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#16. Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#17. We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?
Richard Watson Gilder
#18. Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. - because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..
Daphne Du Maurier
#20. A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.
Ben Johnson
#21. Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
John Conyers
#23. The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.
Justine Larbalestier
#24. I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.
Eric Idle
#25. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#26. Finally, at one p.m. on Tuesday, February 17, 180161, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson prevailed. R
Jon Meacham
#27. It's a funny thing about suspicions, Mr. Wright. All too often, they're just vain hopes in disguise.
Tessa Dare
#28. Falling from the sky like the rain,
And I fly and sing like the little birds...,
Movements that are not in vain,
Everything has a life made of words.
Ana Claudia Antunes
