Best 259 quotes in «useless quotes» category

Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing. Kids had yelled at her. Demanded to know why she had let it happen. Demanded to know where Sam was. Deluged her with complaints and worries and crazy theories until she had retreated. She’d hidden out after that. She’d refused to answer the door when kids knocked. She had not gone to her office. It would be the same there. But through the day it had eaten at her. This feeling of uselessness. A feeling of uselessness made so much worse by the growing realization that she needed Sam. Not because they were up against some threat. The threat was mostly past now. She needed Sam because no one had any respect for her. There was only one person right now who could get a crowd of anxious kids to settle down and do what needed to be done. She had wanted to believe that she could do that. But she had tried. And they hadn’t listened. But Sam was still nowhere to be seen. So despite everything it was still on her shoulders. The thought of it made her sick. It made her want to scream.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Away with all these gods and godlings; they are worse than useless.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Crap. It's all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn't anybody realize this?

February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps... Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

He hated being injured. He felt so useless.

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

I don't buy 'regret' idea. I need life's good lesson.

If your name is "canoe" and you can't float on water, you are useless! If they call you "cutlass" but you can't chop anything into pieces, you are a waste! You have a unique role, you are a brand! Do what you were created to do!

I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.

If you want to be useful, don't waste time on that which is useless.

I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

Never let the world sweep you like a useless rubbish! If the world wants to sweep you, you respond in the same way: Sweep the world!

Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

More than 99.99% of facts are not and will never be useful to even a single person.

My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple.

Our motives are useless if we don’t start acting it out

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

Opinions are a useless currency

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

Some jokes are stupid and useless, if you can't get it. It's to stupid to go in it, but whatever! - Make your choice!

Remember, without a goal, your stamina is useless no matter how you get trained. You may defend your integrity and attack your obstacles, but when you have no target in focus, you will score many zero number of goals...

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

The biggest problem is that stress is above my life, as much I have more stress as more masturbate commmands me. I see it's pointless, it loses time, it's useless and so on and so on... but some how it's difficult to stop it!

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.

The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

There was retribution for what I had done, For it is evil to destroy, Useless to restore what one has damaged, To rebuild what one has demolished.

the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

They may have told you that you are useless but I am here to give you a better report about you: You are not a mistake. You have the potential to do what you were born to do. Yes, you are not a failure! Know that God values you and He is on your side.

Time in the most powerful thing. Not money, not power, not hope. A person can have everything they desire but without time they are, all useless.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing something else which is more useful... Games are useful, aren't they? Facts also, aren't they? ... Aren't they?

we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we are an unwanted burning as we sizzle and fry to the bone the coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneath us and above the sky is an open hand and the words of wise men are useless it's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ...

We do and say useless and pointless stuff and words, if we think little deeper why we go and masturbate?? (No,... No don't change the page... don't close it or whatever do.... look me right in the face and listen it's not a shit... it's how the matrix is build)... well... let's start from here... we masturbate and after all in the other day or after few days we will do it again..., we eat food and after all we eat again and again until we die... we say useless words and after all who in the hell to know why, we do that??? But after all from this useless words comes the one useful story if the useless words didn't exist... it won't also exist the advange called itself "story".

What they say about lawyers being useless isn’t entirely true.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.