Useless Quotes - Page 15

My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

I cannot abide useless people.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.