Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full… — Andrew Jackson Downing
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is… — T.H. White
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. — Antonio Tabucchi
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin
I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. — Melissa Bank
Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way. — Unknown Author
In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own… — Robert Higgs
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish… — Temple Grandin
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. — Helen Keller
To lose your temper is only useful once a year. — Colin Davis
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as… — Marianne Moore
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they… — Rabindranath Tagore
Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity,… — Dallin H. Oaks
The man who is successful is the man who is useful. — William Bourke Cockran
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. — Unknown Author
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. — Samuel Johnson
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with… — Unknown Author
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could… — Thomas A. Edison
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly… — Stephen Potter
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having… — George McGovern
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. — Alfred Adler
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has… — David Ogilvy
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one… — Peter HÃ¸eg

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