Quotes About Worthless

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

The immortality of the soul is worthless. The only meaningful kind of immortality is kleos.

What it amounts to, is you've been listed minus zero, strictly useless, absolutely worthless. The tip off came when he didn't even bother to have you thrown out. I guess that puts you right at the bottom, even lower than Carp and the other mischief-makers. At least they get some attention, they rate high enough to get bounced. All you're getting is the look; the look that says in no uncertain terms that you've been junked.

Many hold that by floating the dollar, Nixon converted the U.S. currency into pure "fiat money"—mere pieces of paper, intrinsically worthless, that were treated as money only because the United States government insisted that they should be.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

Next time we meet, my flame-haired beauty, my chivalrous promise will be worthless. Rest assured, we will meet again." -Lynx (in a note to Callie)

The modest, the sober, and the learned, are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert, in the list of invitations, the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind

These words point in the right direction, but some of them, such as embarrassed, insulted, different, and ignored, can fade with time. Real shame requires more intensity. That's why the language of this next list may make you want to turn away, but it's much closer to shame. Unclean Dishonored Filthy Shunned Disgusting Defiled Outcast Unlovable Discarded Repulsive Disgraced Worthless Loathed Scorned Vile

Don't waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.

VeÅ¡keré jeho zkuÅ¡enosti jsou nyní bezcenné, jeho energie vyÅ¡umÄ›la, z jeho odvahy z?stala jen pýcha Å¡ílence.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly it hurt….

Men are worthless; they always think the issue is what's at issue.

If you paid me for work, continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity. Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad.