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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.
— Kelley Armstrong
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
— Douglas Coupland
I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
— Winston Churchill
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
— Joseph Addison
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— C.S. Lewis
I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.
— Maryrose Wood
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
— John Godfrey Saxe
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
— Abdu'l- Baha
I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle
— Agatha Christie
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
— Ricky Gervais
I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!
— Robert Kirkman
Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here's my guess: because it's useful.
— Max Tegmark
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
— Mortimer Adler
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
— Rebecca West
Any program is only as good as it is useful.
— Linus Torvalds
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
— Hugh Reginald Haweis
Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.
— Timothy Carey
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
— Alexander Pope
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
— Richard Allen
Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
— Seneca.
As beautiful as this world is, it's just as dangerous. People who are not useful, people who make mistakes, they can be removed. You can be removed.
— Victoria Aveyard
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
— Joan Didion
Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.
— Cathy Marie Buchanan
Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
— Orson Scott Card
Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.
— N.K. Jemisin
He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.
— Orson Scott Card
Douglas Adams was right: There is nothing so massively useful in the universe as a towel.
— Kevin Hearne
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies. — Henry Calvert Simons
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
— Seneca.
Art is as useful as bread.
— Azar Nafisi
The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.
— Victor Hugo
Being a laborer with one hand is about as useful as being a sperm donor with one nut.
— Devon McCormack
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
— Walter Jon Williams
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
— Milton S. Hershey
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
— Richard Feynman
He's going to be as useful as nipples on a breastplate.
— George R R Martin
It is really this "mathematical mindset" that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians.
— Edward Frenkel
He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.
— Dorothy Eden
Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
— Joanna Trollope
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.
— Victor Hugo
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
— Maurice De Vlaminck
Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
— Hugh MacLeod
Aconitine is so powerful that Nazi scientists found it useful as an ingredient for poisoned bullets.
— Amy Stewart
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
— Maureen Johnson
Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
— Pete Hamill
Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.
— Emmuska Orczy
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
— Tracy Reese
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel.
— Sarah Pinborough
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
— Lord Chesterfield
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
— Amy Bloom
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
— Lloyd Alexander
Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
— Lawrence Giustiniani
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
— Samuel Eliot Morison
The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.
— Isaac Asimov
In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
— Samuel Johnson
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
— Frederick Douglass
Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.
— Rebecca Solnit
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.
— Martin Prechtel
Do not hope; instead, observe were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.
— Kate DiCamillo
One is only as good as one is useful.
— Noorilhuda