Quotes About Futile

Around and around it went, and what was round had no point, any fool knew that.

And empty words are evil.

Siempre habías sido especial, pero no te había servido de nada

How does anyone ever know anything—the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

But she didn't want to stay there, so she climbed back out the window, through the glass eyes of the seven-foot Good Shepherd, and started again the futile weaving of invisible ifs and slippery mights into an equally unattainable past.

He's as much use as a melted candle." Groups

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave. -Lt. Edward Beale, Congress report on Arizona, 1858

Time elaborately thrown away.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:

My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago. Computers have no effect on productivity because people learn to complicate and repeat tasks that have been made easier.

In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things.

No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.

But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

Samuel Johnson observó: «La fuente de la alegría debe brotar en la mente, y quien conozca tan poco la naturaleza humana como para buscar la felicidad en cualquier cosa que no sea su propia disposición, malgastará su vida en esfuerzos infructuosos y multiplicará las aflicciones que se propone suprimir».

But as we've seen lately, such predictions are generally worthless.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

A common but futile strategy for achieving joy is trying to eliminate things that hurt: get rid of pain by numbing the nerve ends, get rid of insecurity by eliminating risks, get rid of disappointment by depersonalizing your relationships. And then try to lighten the boredom of such a life by buying joy in the form of vacations and entertainment. There isn't a hint of that in Psalm 126.