Avails Quotes

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. - Meister Eckhart

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. - Ida B. Wells

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! - George Meredith

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. - Thomas P Kempis

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. - Jose Marti

It focused on the trials and travails on the personal side that a geek has. It clearly showed the emotional side from the geek's point of view. I thought it was pretty funny. - Tony Iams

If we start controlling the commercials a household sees and make ads totally or even partly independent of the programming they're watching, some of today's low-cost avails may become prime time. In a household that sees limited television but only watches at 1 o'clock in the morning, a marketer might be willing to pay prime-time rates to reach that person. - Tom Alison

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. - Pierre Corneille

Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold. - Latin Proverb

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. - Franz Liszt