The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. — William James Copy Share Image
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark¦ their place in your heart is tender; a bruise… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These,… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If your name is "canoe" and you can't float on water, you are useless! If they call you "cutlass" but you can't… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and… — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
