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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next
I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
I always like to play. It is useful for me; I know how to regulate myself.
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.
I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.
I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.
I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.
I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
