My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre?… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds… — Richard Blumenthal 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
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It… — Francis Chan 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
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
