I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you… — Harry Vardon Copy Share Image
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to… — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It… — Lobsang Rampa Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The greatest missile in the world is useless...unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
