You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Quotes

#1. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

William Shakespeare

#2. Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.

Hugh Nibley

#3. In life, everybody gets the same three chords. It's what you do with them that matters.

Greg Kihn

#4. 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

#5. Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

Robert David Steele

#6. 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

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

Frank Herbert

#8. Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

Jimmy Buffett

#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. The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Robin Williams

#11. 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

#12. The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

Anonymous

#13. When one door is shut, another opens.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Peter Drucker

#15. I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.

Lia Ices

#16. Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Gabriel Byrne

#17. From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

Adrian Frutiger

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

Robert Barron

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

Marshall McLuhan

#22. You can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

Marietta Holley

#23. 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