Uselesly Quotes & Sayings

It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. You will do what your masters tell you to do, doctor. As do we all. — Iain Pears

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion. — M.I.A.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis — Philip Zaleski

Humanity is best described as inhumanity. — Pat Conroy

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation. — John Locke

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. — Ian McEwan

It was a particular sort of Turner weakness: self-sabotaging self-righteousness masked as self-reliance. — Angela Flournoy

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. — Henry Norris Russell

If you think its impossible just think that the universe has no end — Shona

I knew it would never happen again. I knew this was something that would come to me once, and leave, and never come back. This would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I had never felt anything like it before, and I've never felt anything like it since. — Haruki Murakami

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. — David Dinkins

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity. — Peter Dinklage

Duty is the demand of the hour. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them. — Lisa Edelstein