Useless Quotes

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some useless, shiny gee-gaw.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Most animal experimentation is useless.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

We need useless theory more than ever today.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Most arguments are useless.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

Ideas are useless unless used.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.