Useless Quotes

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

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

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

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

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

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

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

Power unused is power useless.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

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.

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

Ideas without action are useless.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.