Best 259 quotes in «useless quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

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

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

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.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

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

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.

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

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

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!

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.