Useful Quotes
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
Carole Wilkinson -
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
María Blasco Marhuenda
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Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles -
Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
Cynthia Lord -
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
Socrates -
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo -
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
Ada Limon -
The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
Augustus De Morgan
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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
G.A. Henty -
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
Christopher Peterson -
Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Cynthia Lord -
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White -
You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden -
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Hollywood! It’s like an old chair – if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.
Sylvia Sidney -
He's been very useful for us in a whole bunch of different areas this year.
Alain Vigneault -
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
Akiva Goldsman -
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
William Bourke Cockran -
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse -
It's useful because it's beautiful.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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All this fighting stems from the illusion that people choose to learn a language for rational reasons, that they are looking for the language that has the most useful features, the best agenda. But no one is out there comparison shopping for an artificial language. They find what they like, and there's no accounting for taste.
Arika Okrent -
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
John Calvin -
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
Sallust -
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Susanna Clarke