Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. — Matt Lucas
You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but… — Claudia Rankine
Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity. — Carson Kressley
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern… — Christopher Eccleston
And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some… — Mark Strong
Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have… — Grace Kelly
Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is… — David Oyelowo
There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never… — William Bourke Cockran
Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to… — William Westney
The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he… — Charles Loomis Dana
I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs… — Patrick Leahy
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten… — Zhuangzi
Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the… — Vladimir Putin
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained… — Huston Smith
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the… — Frank Smith
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological… — Richard Dawkins
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of… — Nick D'Aloisio
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen… — Tsultrim Allione
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information,… — William Deresiewicz
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being… — John Updike
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that… — Stephen Halbrook
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public… — Albert Einstein

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