Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Napoleon Hill

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Matt Lawton

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

Charles Saint-Evremond

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Robert Burns

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

Italian Proverb

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

Steve Rucchin

It's embarrassing. A lot of guys need to take a look in the mirror and quit taking those foolish penalties, which has been a problem all season long. It's going to have to stop in a hurry.

Saskya Pandita

A foolish man proclaimeth his qualifications; a wise man keepeth them secret within himself.

Billy Beane

It would be malpractice not to do research. Of course, it would also be malpractice to make a foolish trade.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Bill Greehey

There is going to be consideration given to delaying a lot of things, ... If we're short fuel, they could delay.