Quotes About Useful

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

In many ways, you appear less than others. But by this power from heaven, you can be something more than the rest of men. You can be more. You can be better, stronger, more useful. You can live a more meaningful and significant life. Believe the promise, and receive the power.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

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

I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.

When I betray the love and grace God has shown me, I fall back on the promise that Jesus prays for me... not that I would never face testing, nor ever fail, but that in the end I will allow God to use the testing and failure to mold me into someone more useful to the kingdom, someone more like Jesus.

If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base

I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision. Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

That's convenient.

Fear is useful when it's on a leash, Avi once said, but it's always a bad dog when you let it run free in your mind.

And so he and Ian—who, it turned out, could also knit and was prostrated by mirth at my lack of knowledge—had taught me the simple basics of knit and purl, explaining, between snorts of derision over my efforts, that in the Highlands all boys were routinely taught to knit, that being a useful occupation well suited to the long idle hours of herding sheep or cattle on the shielings.

so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.

The story detailed all of his works, and then concluded in these words—'And so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.' " She paused, flexing her hands lightly on her knees. "There was something about that that appealed most strongly to me. 'An eminently useful life.' " She smiled at me. "I could think of many worse epitaphs than that, milady.

How could she be a helpmate to a public figure already so successful, the foremost member of the President's Cabinet? How could she be of any use to a public figure who already possessed everything?

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

Such considerations have led to a renewed public interest in the subject of religion; religion is discovered after all to be a useful thing. But the trouble is that in being utilized religion is also being degraded and destroyed. Religion is being regarded more and more as a mere means to a higher end.

they always did in times of crisis—replaying the same tired video clips, indulging in pointless speculation, and interviewing the usual groups of "experts," none of whom could shed any useful light on events.

It's more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.