Quotes About Futile

Even if you were to discover it, I don't imagine you could simply shin up a drainpipe and jemmy open the bathroom window. Fort Knox is most likely a bus shelter in comparison.

They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

Kebencian adalah suatu emosi yang tak berguna

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Let him beg, it won't do him no good.

glass knives were about as useful as nipples on a knight's breastplate,

They laboriously do nothing.

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

You're wasting your time on me. Might as well go find another girl to charm.

Todo el interior de unas vidas interminables y sin final que es vacío. Lastimosas formas de ignorancia.

What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

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.

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

Peace that follows battle is a futile peace. It is time to count dead and to assess which side stands closer to the win.

Yet, advice on what we can do is usually futile—for we will do nothing except applaud the speaker, accept those ideas of his we already agree with, and reject those ideas that run counter to our prejudices.

While architecture's sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture's Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.