Useless Quotes - Page 20

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

Power unused is power useless.

To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

Things are useless without practice.

Talking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours.

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

Accusations are useless.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless