Quotes About Useless

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

We need useless theory more than ever today.

Technical and fundamental analysis is usually useless as a trading edge,[...] Mindless strategies like mean reversion work until they don't and you suffer a blowout. Fundamentals are priced in. And no one can predict tomorrow's news.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.

Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving— Come back and dwell with me.

line is as useless as a screen door on a submarine?

Opinions are a useless currency

If you are in a breakup, you might as well go all the way and spend the summer in Samarkand, with no air-conditioning, learning a language you have no use for. At least it adds some romance to a depressing situation.

The Munich conference," he muttered, "is a locomotive that cannot be stopped. In my opinion, it's useless even to try.

I was soon restless and irritable. I felt useless and unwanted.

I'm sorry," James says. "I don't speak Mandarin." Here's a liability of his: he always wants to help, but his ignorance makes him useless to his own kind. Not just to this man, but to every lost Mandarin-speaking traveler fumbling in mid-transfer who mistakes him for a helpful guide.

But, as with people, some plants were completely useless.

was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.

You have given me hope,and I curse you for it. I thought I had given up on such useless thoughts, but there it is, The last refuge of madmen and dreamers -Dr.Zhir, Star Trek:TNG:NightShade-

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.