Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the… — James M. Barrie 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
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put… — James May Copy Share Image
Guess you all thought wrong of me after all. I'm a useless human being, who's trying to find their meaning in this… — Iimyotherdarkside 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
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I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora 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
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
![“Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found…” quote by Christopher Columbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce8/christopher-columbus-9477_admiral_here-the-people-could-stand-it-no-longer_921116.jpg)
