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Quotes About Useless

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Documentary: That's a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
~ Walker Evans
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue
~ Winston S. Churchill
Los lambiscones se esmeran como putas menopáusicas para hacerte creer que son muy útiles.
~ Xavier Velasco
Her fear was something useless that only hampered her.
~ Yann Martel
La littérature est parfaitement inutile, sa seule utilité est qu'elle aide à vivre.
~ Unknown
Commercial interests capitalize upon people's expectations of perpetual health. The exploitation of these expectations creates a market for products which are not only useless and costly but also carry risks. The perception of pain in one's joints, muscles or head has become a target of many different pills.
~ Herbert Benson
Reginald's plain exterior gives no idea of the elaborate, useless nature of his mind, with its little shelves and niches for scruples and doubts.
~ Hilary Mantel
The knife is my hand is useless. I throw it at the desk, barely registering as the point sinks into the wood. He pulls back from me at the sound, startled. His mouth is pink, his eyes dark. He sees the knife and barks out a startled laugh. page 309
~ Holly Black
Do you think he will protect you now? You're useless. The heir to Elfhame has no reason to spend any further time with an untutored savage of a girl. But think, you wouldn't even have to remember him. You wouldn't even have to remember yourself." "I'm not half as practical as you suppose," Oak says. "I like many useless things. I've been called useless myself from time to time.
~ Holly Black
And here I always thought morality was useless
~ Jeff Lindsay
Talent without work is useless, thank God
~ Mark Twain
This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.
~ Vladimir Putin
Because the unique individual cannot reproduce himself either physically or spiritually, nature discards him as useless. Nature is only interested in reproducing, and from time to time throwing out a "sport" or unique specimen. This specimen, not able to reproduce itself, is finished with evolution, and is not interested in making of itself a model for others.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
all revelation which does not give hope is useless and superfluous.
~ Valentin Tomberg
Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.
~ Josh Kaufman
Don't come near the flat!' 'But it's my own flat.' 'I can't help that. Aunt Isabel doesn't like you. She asked me what you did for a living. And when I told her you didn't do anything she said she thought as much, and that you were a typical specimen of a useless and decaying aristocracy. So if you think you have made a hit, forget it.
~ Unknown
If you are profoundly interested in useless opinions and stupid people, may I suggest the purchase of a television?
~ David Gustafson
The frustration is in how pointless the effort was
~ David Levithan
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.
~ David Sedaris
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence
~ Hugh Blair
she wore a Walther TPH .22 automatic in her right hand. The TPH is a pretty little thing. It has a straight blowback action, a six-round box magazine and two-and-a-quarter-inch barrel. It's also utterly useless as a firearm, because unless you can guarantee hitting either the heart or the brain first time, you're only going to annoy the person you're shooting at. For most people, a wet mackerel is the better choice of weapon.
~ Hugh Laurie