I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear!… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll… — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
