#useful

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#came #could #first #give #go

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#classes #few #fitted #necessity #ordinary

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#essential #feel #i #lot #making

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#certain #china #could #especially #feel

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years. ↗

— Mark Strong

#bit #children #feel #had #having

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#desire #others #recompense #thought #true

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#concluded #couched #i #i am #profound

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#choices #doubts #made #many #politicians

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#articles #enable #fit #generously #give

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

#does #fit #live #makes #problems