Quotes About Futile

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

Umbrellas made vain attempts to withhold the deluge;

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands . . . and he, Jubal Harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irritated him.

Well— I feel so damn useless!

Mmm, a futile discussion. So my problem child is adequate?" "Well … he's not a member of the Ku Klux Klan—" "I never thought he was! Zebbie isn't that sort." "—but he's a wizard under a sheet!

Therefore, simple syllogism: human language is futile and stupid. Meaning furthermore that human narratives are futile and stupid.

but one egg isn't good for anything at all

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

I discovered how our hearts, as though infected with some malignant virus, were being eaten away by the uneasy awakening that was brazenly intruding upon our dream, by the futile pleasure of our dream seen at the threshold of consciousness.

Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile.

now in her eyes the knowledge that this was futile, that this had always been futile

line is as useless as a screen door on a submarine?

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.

It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.

But, as with people, some plants were completely useless.

The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.