Useless Quotes

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.

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.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

Intention without action is useless.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.