You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Quotes & Sayings

The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn. — James K. Morrow

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. — Guy Finley

She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them ... The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O'Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really. — Alexander McQueen

The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogeneous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its credibility. . . .The point about the melting pot. . . is that it did not happen. — David L. Sills

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo ... — Clifford D. Simak

It's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it. — Chang-rae Lee

The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace. — Daniel Altman

The times do, in fact change. They change relentlessly. Inevitably. Inventively. And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting jorns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.

Carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness, thought the Count. I wonder... — Amor Towles

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual - even a one-word manual - then it is a failure, poorly designed. — Donald A. Norman

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. — Peace Pilgrim

In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness. — Frank Herbert

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan

Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in. — Lorine Niedecker

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. — Joseph Sobran

Cockblocked by the phone. Wanna bet it's Focus On The Family or some Satanic organization like? — Andrea Speed

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. — Peter Drucker

My name is Raghuram Rajan and I do what I do. — Raghuram G. Rajan

I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise. — Logan Ryan Smith

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. — William O. Douglas