Quotes About Futile

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

It is futile to deny the complexity of human emotions. Our lives are sometimes inscrutable, often disrupted by conflicting desires. Our lives are fragile, at once precious and insignificant, sometimes bathed in icy waters of loneliness, sometimes in the warm stream of a fountain of youth. Our lives, for the most part, are beyond our control.

To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you.

Of course, the situation is hopeless for those who wish an alteration in affairs that by their very nature are fixed and define the world in which we are all chained.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Like countless scholars who have made this quest before us, we have found that looking for an historical Jesus is futile.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Convencer es infructuoso.

So weak and ineffectual, it's almost homeopathic.

We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I—it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it.

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

It is futile to plan a city's appearance, or speculate on how to endow it with a pleasing appearance of order, without knowing what sort of innate, functioning order it has. To seek for the look of things as a primary purpose or as the main drama is apt to make nothing but trouble.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Les bonnes résolutions ne sont que d'inutiles efforts pour contrarier les lois scientifiques. Elles ont leur source dans notre vanité. Leur résultat est absolument nil. Elles nous donnent, de temps à autre, quelques-unes de ces riches et stériles émotions qui ne sont pas sans charme pour les âmes faibles. Voilà tout ce qu'on peut dire en leur faveur. Ce sont des chèques tirés sur une banque où l'on n'a pas de compte ouvert.