Quotes About Fruitless

Oh, what a pity to work very efficiently in a very inconsequential matters.

Rousseau's search might prove fruitless. Perhaps

You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

I think a lot of games in Oakland were just time being wasted, for a lack of a better phrase. I felt like I would play in some games that were four quarters, just like every other game, but it didn't feel like I was doing anything. It just felt like I was out there.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

To live a barren sister all your life,Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg'uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting.

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. This is what makes travel so utterly fruitless.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

line is as useless as a screen door on a submarine?

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

The results are about as meaningful as a sixth toe - gives you something to look at, but doesn't do a damn thing.

Most arguments are useless.

In this conclusion, Freeman suggests that naturalism is Calvinism revived, and that the appropriate answer to such a cold, hard, and fruitless philosophy is the same as it was to Calvinism proper.

Hitting his enormous body was useless. I might as well have pounded a huge leather sack filled with wheat. So

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

I have seen people and their fruitless societies in such repetitive posturings that their nonsense fills me with boredom

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.