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Quotes About Useless

For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. —Titus 1:10
~ Gary Chapman
So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. —James 2:17
~ Gary Chapman
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
~ George Eliot
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
~ Thomas More
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
~ Saint Jerome
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
~ Samuel Johnson
After all, they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.
~ Samuel R. Delany
they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.
~ Samuel R. Delany
It's impossible, Amy muttered. The lead? Nellie said, a baffled look spreading across her face. You havn't even heard it yet. The whole clue hunt, Dan corrected. It's useless. We can't win. Not the way we're supposed to. Why'd we even bother coming here?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
There is nothing more useless than a organ. When you have given him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatisms and restored him to his true liberty.
~ Antonin Artaud
las palabras de mando eran inútiles, y los hombres, agarrados con todas sus fuerzas a las vergas mientras el barco danzaba
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He never was worth the powder it'd take to blow him to hell.
~ Shirley Damsgaard
what we know to be useless, but expect civilization to value, is beauty;
~ Sigmund Freud
The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid.
~ Sigmund Freud
ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Thus it is understanding God's grace—that is to say, understanding God himself 178—that demolishes legalism. Grace highlights legalism's bankruptcy and shows that it is not only useless; it is pointless; its life breath is smothered out of it.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.
~ Sol Stein
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
~ Peter Stone
Heaven's work never ceases, and men should never rest from doing good. The Sabbath is not intended to be a period of useless inactivity.
~ Ellen G White
Pe românii de la Paris evit cît pot s?-i v?d: în genere sunt intriganÅ£i ÅŸi r?spîndesc zvonuri false. In plus, nu sunt de nici un folos penici un plan
~ Emil Cioran
If it is characteristic of the wise man to do nothing useless, no one will surpass me in wisdom: I do not even lower myself to useful things.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.
~ Banana Yoshimoto