Outlived Usefulness Quotes

#1. Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo ...

Clifford D. Simak

#2. The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.

Daniel Altman

#3. I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

Carly Rae Jepsen

#5. Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Peace Pilgrim

#6. In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.

Frank Herbert

#7. A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Francois Rabelais

#8. I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering ... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside ... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

Michael Foot

#9. The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogeneous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its credibility. . . .The point about the melting pot. . . is that it did not happen.

David L. Sills

#10. You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Edwin Land

#11. I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all okay with me.

Itzah C. Kret

#12. A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Peter Drucker

#13. the tombstone sky cried down unending tears of rain all around

Shaun Harbinger

#14. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#15. The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.

James K. Morrow

#16. I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise.

Logan Ryan Smith

#17. Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

William O. Douglas