Quotes About Futile

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

A man may tear a jewel From a sea monster's jaws, Cross a tumultuous sea Of raging tides, Or twine garlandwise A wrathful serpent on his head. But no man can alter The thoughts of an obstinate fool.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The critic as an alchemist practicing the obscure art of transmuting the futile elements of the real into the shining, enduring gold of truth

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

It was said in Clan Campbell that there were a dozen ways of wasting your breath, and talking to Gerald were six of them.

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

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The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But it is not a story of a homecoming. How could the Greeks who knew that one never enters the same river twice, believe in homecoming? Odysseus does not return home to stay, but to set off again. The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. A

Is there a way of living that is noble and another that is base, or are all ways of living merely futile?

Her stony coldness was more convincing of the cataclysm than the dirt. Argument was as futile now as blame in Eden. I could not bear to look at her. She had cast away her soul.

No, era un viejo borracho, tirado en el suelo, en un anochecer, entre sus propios olores, ajeno, desde hacía rato, a la enorme realidad; un viejo que dormía al sereno, y al que buscarían, con faroles, inútilmente, para la cena.

Why waste romance on a love that would never be returned?

That so-called master of hounds was about as much use as a fart in a colander.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.

To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: "Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.

Ä°nsan etraf?na rahats?zl?k veriyorsa hiçbir iÅŸe yaram?yor demektir.

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

Is there any more futile, soul-irradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner?

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.