Best 259 quotes in «useless quotes» category

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

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

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.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

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

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.

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

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming 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.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

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

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

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

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

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

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

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

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

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.

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

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

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

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

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

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

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

Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

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