Quotes About Futile

All non-Christian systems of thought begin, proceed, and end in intellectual and practical failure. Thus God has made all non-Christian religions and philosophies foolish and futile.

Non-Christian worldviews are futile because, being foolish, they cannot discover the highest good; moreover, they fail to attain even their own designated ends.

Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

POD is DOA.

I have come to realize that Mr. Kauderer's presence is important for me: that someone still evinces so much scrupulousness and methodical attention, though I know perfectly well it is all futile, has a reassuring effect on me perhaps because it makes up for my vague way of living, about which—despite the conclusions I have reached—I continue to feel guilty.

America's commitment to the compulsory education of its young now reveals itself to be as futile as the pretended American commitment to compulsory democratization of the Vietnamese.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

To try to help somebody who doesn't want to be helped is ludicrous. It doesn't work.

An arrow shot into the sea, it can hurt no one.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I'm not even a god.

Yet even as Beatrice tried to convince herself that her anguish varied greatly from the disappointments the beautiful widow had endured, she recognized the act as a futile attempt to elevate her own suffering to something greater. She wanted to believe her sorrow transcended ordinary misery, that it was in some way hallowed, but in reality it was just sadness, as common as dirt and as familiar as the sky.

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

As much use as tits on a fish.

Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it.

Sometimes the best, the most prudent, the most charitable thing that we can do is to give these people a wide berth. But when we have to deal with such people, we need to give up the futile goal of trying to talk them out of their negativity (or to beat it out of them, as the protagonist of Cheever's story tried to do with his brother Lawrence), and simply love them as best we can, without expecting them to change.

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They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

Resistance is futile.