It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.
I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.