Quotes About Futile

To me, Herod symbolizes the terrible destruction that fearful people can leave in their wake if their fear is unacknowledged, if they have power but can only use it in furtive, pathetic, and futile attempts at self-preservation.

A doorway is a hopeless hiding place.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

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

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

He smiled a slow, predatory grin. "Resistance is futile." "You are not assimilating me.

It was like piling money into a heap and setting it on fire twice a month.

Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, "that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the whole sensible world would be turned into mere illusion.

It's sad," said Lucile, thinking of all the girls whose youth was passing them by in vain: the men were gone, prisoners or dead. The enemy took their place. It was deplorable, but no one would even know in the future. It would be one of those things posterity would never find out, or would refuse to see out of a sense of shame.

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

We Have Nothing in Common, So I t would be a wasted life If I'll ever fall for her. In addition, life is too precious to be wasted in this way.

Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.No matter how hard you try, result never changes.

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

You argue with her to no avail (she is supposed to be the "expert").

Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water.

And thus ended the third Crusade, less destructive of human life than the two first, but quite as useless.

A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.

because there's something joyless and deadening in the air, as if what this room really holds is the decaying miscarried fetus of the human future. Anyone who lingers here will sicken and die, just as if they were stranded in the pyramid on a dead world where once the photo-reconnaissance Concordes flew.

What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.