Quotes About Usefulness

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. They look upon resigning, not as a cowardice and quitting and a personal disaster, but as the ultimate guarantee of their useful influence and of their personal dignity. - Walter Lippmann

The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity of the new tools increased, efficiency and usefulness began to decrease.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

You look too pretty to be useful.

She studied him for a few more seconds. "You look too pretty to be useful." I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and shook her hand. "Truer words were never spoken," he said.

You look too pretty to be useful. - Angeline

You look too pretty to be useful. Truer words were never spoken.

Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Pregúntale a cualquier jardinero.

Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.

Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent. Because if you're not being useful in this world, you're being useless. Don't be useless: go make stuff that makes people happy.

This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: to give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, putting them under a description which allowed them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

Tiktok. I can-not help be-ing your in-fer-i-or for I am a mere ma-chine. When I am wound up I do my du-ty by go-ing just as my ma-chin-er-y is made to go. You have no i-de-a how full of ma-chin-er-y I am. I can guess, said the Scarecrow, looking at the machine man curiously. Some day I'd like to take you apart and see just how you are made. Do not do that, I beg of you, said Tiktok; for you could not put me to-geth-er a-gain, and my use-ful-ness would be de-stroyed.

Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one (4:20) seems to know how useful uselessness is.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

One must, in addition, evince a favorable disposition toward the party regime of the general secretary, usefulness to the Stalin organization.

Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power to be of use to you; which they certainly will not, if you have once shown them contempt. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. (Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.

What good is time with nothing to do?

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.