Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that… — Robert G. Picard Copy Share Image
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless… — Walter Breuning Copy Share Image
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
~Nobody cares about me, because they think that I'm fake, useless, worthless and I dont mean anything to anybody anymore. know wonder… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight;… — Hugh Blair 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
Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you.… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I'm absolutely… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
