Usefulness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated ... But beware I bite. — Traci Lords

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did. — V.S. Naipaul

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. — Walter Abish

I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something. — Christopher Moore

100 multiples of the Fine Structure Constant charges the King's Chamber volume based on a ratio of GPG's Base Diagonal Length Squared over the Speed of Light value. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. — D.H. Lawrence

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over. — Garry Shandling

My standards are so high because of who I serve but it doesn't put any water on my fire for winning. I'm still an intense person. You can be intense and saved. You can compete and still be saved. You can challenge a guy and still be saved. There was nothing soft about me as a player and there isn't anything soft about me as a coach. You want to be a man of integrity and you want the players to know that you care about them. Whether or not they still like you or not is a whole other deal. — Avery Johnson

Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It's natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily. — Kate Morton

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work. — Lauren Groff