A Quote by Bertrand Russell

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
British - Celebrity
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Robert Ringer

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousuf Karsh

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

John Wesley

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Charles Dickens

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break.

Sullivan Ballou

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this. I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?

Ai Yazawa

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

Samael Aun Weor

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Jorge Luis Borges

Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.

George Lee Butler

In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.

John Wesley

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Rafe Spall

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.