2007-12-22 03:29:11 · 4 answers · asked by hatp 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity”
Dag Hammarskjold quotes
“Vanity is my favourite sin.”
dunja Al Pacino quotes
2007-12-30 03:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by Jagger Otto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. - Jane Austen
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. - Henri Bergson
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. - Napoleon Bonaparte
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. - Harold W. Dodds
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. - Erich Fromm
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. - Albert Einstein
2007-12-22 12:11:11 · answer #2 · answered by Tom Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!
2007-12-29 23:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkle♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
insecurity
“I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.” ~~Eminem (American Rapper. b.1972)
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” ~~Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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vanity
“It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.” ~~François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French author, 1613-1680)
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.” ~~Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
2007-12-27 20:53:34 · answer #4 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋