Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
How did you find me anyway." "For all that I must keep reminding you that I am not a bloodhound, it's true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
With $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... love! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with… — Sadie Sink Copy Share Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
