Menu
Home
Authors
Topics
Pidgin
Action Thoughts
Contact Us
Authors
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
S
Y
Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Login to your account
Email
Password
Reset Password
New here?
Create a new Account
Make Free Wallpaper
Video Quotes
Quote of the Day
Make Free Wallpaper
login/Register
Login to your account
Email
Password
Reset Password
New here?
Create a new Account
Search
Authors
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
S
Y
Z
Home
Topics
Authors
Pidgin
Action Thoughts
Home
utility
"
Quotes and Sayings About utility
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd
Architect
Beauty
Carefully
Comfort
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
Anything
Invent
Proof
Sale
Favorite
Make wallpaper
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Futility
Hence
Invites
Involves
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
Been
Dust
Established
Example
Favorite
Make wallpaper
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
Adam Savage
Batman
Belt
Everything
Form
Favorite
Make wallpaper
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brutality
War
Hate
Lived
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
Benito Mussolini
Apart
Believes
Considerations
Considers
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich Schiller
Utility
Great
Powers
Talent
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
Patton Oswalt
Adolescence
Based
Because
Bill
Favorite
Make wallpaper
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles
Approach
Blues
Country
Country
Favorite
Make wallpaper
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
George Soros
Concept
General equilibrium
Relevance
Real world
Favorite
Make wallpaper
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
Autumn
Beauty
End
Garner
Favorite
Make wallpaper
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
Louis XIV of France
Been
Bought
Know
Made
Favorite
Make wallpaper
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.
Rollo May
Boredom
Dangers
Decade
Despair
Favorite
Make wallpaper
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind
Annie Besant
True basis
Morality
Utility
The adaptation
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three-and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson
Utility
One telephone
Luxury
Have two
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression
Defend
Itself
Utility
Favorite
Make wallpaper
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Michel Foucault
Life
Futility
Vain words
Favorite
Make wallpaper