Quotes About Useful

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Être fort pour être utile," Hébert declared. "Be fit to be useful.

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. Scottish proverb

No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

Christophe says, 'You are not sad, sir?' 'No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.

It was a kitchen to be useful in.

Devilish rogues, the newspapers," said Claparon. "Monsieur, the newspapers do all the mischief. They are useful sometimes, but they keep me awake many a night. I wish they didn't. I have put my eyes out reading and ciphering.

Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.

L'information est une monnaie très utile. Pour chaque question à laquelle je répondrai au sujet de Brewster, je t'en poserai une en retour. - C'est tellement Hannibal Lecter de ta part.

Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

But with Freddy I seemed to have the best sort of conversations, where our talk became exploratory and would lead on to new ideas, like thinking aloud, and in the process of clarifying improvisatory theories I always made useful discoveries about what I thought and felt.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.