#useful

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. ↗

— Lee Child

#grew #i #made #them #things

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. ↗

— Claire Danes

#dreamed #ever #how #more #problems

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#fame #i #mean #nice #recognized

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#i #i think #institution #kind #know

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#bible #commands #direct #exhortations #god

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#innocence #useful-idiots #age

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-natured #helpful #life #plenitude #richness

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. ↗

— Robert Shea

#beings #both #combination #every #human

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#before #ever #felt #filled #happy