We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
It is useless to live on burned ruins.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
Only useless things are indispensable.
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
