Useful Quotes
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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 -
Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
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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 -
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 -
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
Socrates -
It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
Carole Wilkinson -
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 -
There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
G.A. Henty
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Cynthia Lord -
You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden -
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 -
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White -
The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
Augustus De Morgan -
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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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 -
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse -
Hollywood! It’s like an old chair – if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.
Sylvia Sidney -
I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
Benjamin Carson -
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
William Bourke Cockran
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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 -
Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
Sean Penn -
A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
Monica Dolan