Useless Quotes

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

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

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.