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Usefulness Quotes (page 203)

Elaine Dundy quote: "What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant..."
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Elaine Dundy
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together..."
She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice. Jose Saramago
Marquis de Sade quote: "I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to..."
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. Marquis de Sade
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. Gwendolyn Brooks
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away. Mark Twain
John von Neumann quote: "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You..."
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. John von Neumann
Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter! L. M. Montgomery
Dennis Miller quote: "Quote: You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery..."
Quote: You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? Dennis Miller
James Patterson quote: "We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy,..."
We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang James Patterson
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half. Jane Austen
Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone. J. K. Rowling
...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise. Dean Koontz
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of... George Orwell

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