No Use Quotes

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.

When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology.

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.