Quotes About Useless

Here he found that European learning, like Oriental bookkeeping, had its useless intricacies designed to keep outsiders where they belonged.

I'll keep waiting, for as long as it takes, for this war to be seen in everyone's eyes for what it always was, the most filthy, savage, useless obsenity that ever there was.

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.

When you focus on details like this - close up, really clear, totally useless - you know you're in shock

What he really wanted was revenge. But against whom, and for what? Even if he had the energy for it, even if he could focus and aim, such a thing would be less than useless.

There are only two perfectly useless things in the world," he quipped. "One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!

I should love you, for you are charming and talented at many useless accomplishments. But many ladies have charm and accomplishments and are just as useless as you are. No, I don't love you. But I do like you tremendously - for the elasticity of your conscience, for the selfishness which you seldom trouble to hide, and for the shrewd practicality in you which, I fear, you get from some not too remote Irish-peasant ancestor.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

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.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.

Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It's useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it's useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.

Si un experto en marketing no sabe cómo inventar, diseñar, influir, adaptar y, finalmente, rechazar productos, entonces ya no es un experto en marketing, es algo inútil.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

a measurement not clearly defined is worse than useless.

I took an oath. If it is not inviolable, then I am useless. If I am not inviolate, the magic is not inviolate.

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

But it was almost over, after all, her life. It swelled behind her like a sardine fishing net, all sorts of useless seaweed and broken bits of shells and the tiny, shining fish—

There are indeed practical men who reject the dignified parts of Government. They say, we want only to attain results, to do business: a constitution is a collection of political means for political ends, and if you admit that any part of a constitution does no business, or that a simpler machine would do equally well what it does, you admit that this part of the constitution, however dignified or awful it may be, is nevertheless in truth useless.