Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Raymond Chandler

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

William James

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

Samuel Johnson

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Werner Herzog

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

Samuel Beckett

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

Roger Scruton

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

Will Self

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Richard Wilbur

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

William Friedkin

Violence is not funny.

Tracy Morgan

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others,

Sarah McLachlan

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

Wole Soyinka

I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

Warren Farrell

[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.

Zainab Salbi

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

William Butler Yeats

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

Walter Dean Myers

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

Trish Stratus

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.

Rob Bell

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

Whoopi Goldberg

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

William Booth

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Veronica Roth

Looking at her is like waking up.

Robert Jordan

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

Jose Marti

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Jorge Luis Borges

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.