Quotes About Useless

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

más inútil que un equipo para esquiar en Ecuador.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate agrees with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.1

For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not.

that woman Forbes was no more use than a headache—

There is almost nothing more useless than a New Mexican in a metaphysical mood.

elegant gazelle-like creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway.

Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote.

We have to believe and trust or our faith is useless.

don't see the point in a useless emotional exercises.

But our grief was useless. Salt water, spilled on the ground, does not feed what grows there, but kills it.

do is make the revenue and profit projections rise 5 to 10 percent per year. If this seems simplistic or silly, just look around for a company that forecasts it will grow 7 percent, then drop 4 percent, then merge with a competitor, then rise 8 percent, and then fall another 11 percent. I've never seen a business forecast like that, even though that's how most end up. They all show their numbers getting bigger every year, rendering the exercise useless.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Debe ser la caricia de lo inútil, la tristeza sin fin de ser poeta, de cantar y cantar, sin que se rompa la tragedia sin par de la existencia. It must be the caress of the useless, the endless sadness of being a poet, of singing and singing, without breaking the peerless tragedy of existence. (From Canción Amarga/Bitter Song)

He felt about as useless as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I'm useless in water. I wake up at night drowning in my own saliva.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.