Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to… — John Luther Adams
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts… — Simon Hoggart
People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid… — Francis Collins
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real… — Guy Davenport
I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character… — Peter York
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… — Peter York
Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the… — Stephen Daldry
I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the… — Stephen Daldry
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions… — Karl Lehmann
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever. — Jesse Torrey
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your… — Paul Washer
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and… — Wendell Berry
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant… — Douglas Harding
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful. — Thomas A. Edison
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. — Henry David Thoreau
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. — Winston Churchill
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do… — Martin Luther
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again. — George Carlin

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