Useful Thing Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray…
— Oswald Chambers
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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it…
— Charlie Munger
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I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little…
— Linda Ronstadt
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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
— Isaac Asimov
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Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful…
— Charlie Munger
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
— Dorothy Parker
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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful…
— Stephen Dunn
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America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is…
— Don DeLillo
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that…
— Warren Christopher
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the…
— Victor Hugo
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in…
— Gary Numan
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Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately…
— George Will
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
— Oscar Wilde
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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What did you do?†“Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…†He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,†commented Lyall thoughtfully.
— Gail Carriger
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How did you find me anyway." "For all that I must keep reminding you that I am not a bloodhound, it's true that on occasion,…
— Mira Grant
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This is my parent's house. I offered it to Dumbledore as headquarters for the Order. It's about the only useful thing I've been able to…
— Sirius Black
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I have gone through ups and down, and its human nature for someone to judge and say, Heres what you need to do. But the…
— Kate Walsh
Who Wrote These Useful Thing Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Useful Thing Quotes as follows: