Quotes About Futile

It is futile to advance the argument that glasses are unromantic. They are not. I know, because I wear them myself, and I am a singularly romantic figure, whether in my rimless, my Oxford gold-bordered, or the plain gent's spectacles which I wear in the privacy of my study.

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

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

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive spirituality probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.

This impotence of "systems" is a main reason why Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today, which always strongly convey some elements of a human system. They were, instead, to establish beachheads of his person, word, and power in the midst of a failing and futile humanity.

How does Paul describe the mind caught up in the world? Futile, full of things that do not matter, darkened, blind.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

For some people love is like a king they swear allegiance to. That kind of person has to be released from one bond before they can begin to forge another one. All very conventional behavior, but fiercely interior convention. I'm not trying to imply that such people are wise or that they impress me -- I'm one of them, and it's probably the most futile form of integrity going. But if it's a side dish to other forms of integrity, then it's all right.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

Cats are useless.

Only useless things are indispensable.

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good,

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

I can't be happy going out if it's not . . . going anywhere.

It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In

The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.

It was one of those moments when the prizes and penalties of life seem equally stale and futile.

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

it is terribly important to a militaristic society to have constant wars going on that are both unwinnable and completely futile, in order to justify a constant running fire-hose blast of deficit spending. For example, I personally vow that the United States will be running full-scale wars against both Drugs and Terror until both Drugs and Terror are completely obliterated from the earth. These