Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
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I like happy endings.
Harmon Killebrew -
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
Warren Bennis -
A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
Oscar Wilde
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde -
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle -
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
Aristotle -
Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
Lao Tzu -
Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Jules Verne -
Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.
Kass Morgan -
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse -
Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
Cynthia Lord -
Something was being applied to the ball quite obviously and he must have known it. It's quite conclusive on film.
Clive Lloyd -
You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden
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One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.
Paul Krugman -
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
Patrick Demarchelier -
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Umberto Eco -
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Samuel R. Delany