Useless Quotes

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Life is a useless passion.

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

I cannot abide useless people.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.