Vain Quotes

You're So Vain. - Carly Simon

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? / Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? / And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. - Bible

Your blood will not go in vain. - Saddam Hussein

You shall easily know a vainglorious man: his own commendation rumbles within him till he hath bulked it out, and the air of it is unsavory. - Thomas Adams

You see young men dying every day, and sometimes you feel they may be dying in vain. It makes me sick to my stomach. It's a shame that in a country with this many educated people, we couldn't do better than [John] Kerry or Bush. But we're over there now, in for the long haul, and we can't just up and pull out. - Mitch May

You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. Youll care only about the darkness and youll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe youre some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad youll be afraid to look away, youll be afraid to sleep. - Mark Danielewski

You got a lot of smoke, and not a lot of fire. Everybody's out front taking money and at least using Bill's name in vain. But there's been very little, if any, connection to Bill. - Bruce Harvey

You don't want to let his death be in vain and you don't want to let them get away with this, Martin will be returned to Panama City to his final resting place. - Benjamin Crump