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Quotes About Useless

Work, that supposed panacea, the great Taker-of-Your-Mind-Off, proved just about as totally useless and in fact irrelevant as those 'Easy Childbirth' theories are in the face of the real thing.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
No, you are saying to yourselves what a bore he is, what use is he to society? He has no money, he has no pretty wife, no good conversation, no tips on the stockmarket. He's a useless fardel on society.... The artist is a fardel.
~ John Dos Passos
The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?
~ John Grisham
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.
~ Anonymous
Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
~ Rich Mullins
A concept is useless without an application and an application is useless without courage.
~ Unknown
Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.
~ Unknown
The highway authorities clearly did not think it worth their while wasting road salt on this useless bit of roadway.
~ Maj Sjowall
As much use as tits on a fish.
~ Mal Peet
Making complaints against stock brokers to SEBI is useless because brokers and Sebi are both hands in glove to make investors penniless
~ Unknown
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
~ John Newton
for as gospel gifts are useless without attending unto gospel institutions, so gospel institutions are found to be fruitless and unsatisfactory without the attaining and exercising of gospel gifts.
~ John Owen
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. And I will.
~ John Scalzi
part, 'This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. And I will.
~ John Scalzi
it seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind.
~ John Williams
She now represents the Western United States, thus proving politics is even more accepting of the strange, unusual, and mostly useless than the music industry.
~ John Zakour
But it is. It's something you need, and that's a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we don't need is a man who can't let go of the useless baggage of his memories.
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
~ Alfred Adler
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.
~ Marcel Proust
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
~ Margot Asquith
Sovrana : — Sono solo inutile, non stupida. Il Sovrano invece è inutile e stupido, e perciò è un uomo felice, come voi potete capire... così riesce anche a essere buono, mentre io no: io sono cattiva... molto cattiva...
~ Unknown
If science were only some abstract thing, without connection to our lives, it would be both useless and boring. But there have been times when I wished that I might snip a few of the threads tying it to other matters, so they would stop tripping me as I went.
~ Marie Brennan