Quotes About Worthless

He hadn't been able to explain his ideas of glory and death, or the longing and the melancholy pent up in his chest, or the other dark passions choking in the ocean's swell. Whenever he tried to talk about those things, he failed. If there were times when he felt he was worthless, there were others when something like the magnificence of the sunset over Mnila Bay sent its radiant fire through him and he knew that he had been chosen to tower above other men.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

He was of no more consequence than an empty cigarette packet.

Beauty is the minimum," Grayson replied. But technique without artistic sensibility is worthless. (He looked down at the rests of the violin he had broken.) Beauty is a decoy.

Papa talks enough of my defects, and shows enough scorn of me, to make it natural I should doubt myself - I doubt whether I am not altogether as worthless as he calls me, frequently; and then I feel so cross and bitter, I hate everybody!

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

made her feel flattened and worthless. His anger was like that lightning cloud rising above the dome in La Tempesta.

With the exception of industry experts who have built very similar businesses, opinions are worthless. You want facts and commitments, not compliments.

Compliments are the fool's gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and worthless.

Just what is a speculative bubble? The Oxford English Dictionary defines a bubble as "anything fragile, unsubstantial, empty, or worthless; a deceptive show. From 17th c. onwards often applied to delusive commercial or financial schemes." The problem is that words like show and scheme suggest a deliberate creation, rather than a widespread social phenomenon that is not directed by any central impresario.

Your worthless brother's making out with his new girlfriend. Or getting ready for his big showdown at the nunnery tomorrow.

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

Men are about as worthless a race of people as I've ever encountered.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.

You are…you are…" The merchant tried to control himself. "You have nothing. You are nothing!

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.

Those were the 4:00 a.m. thoughts, when she felt so worthless and inadequate that it was almost funny. Not funny, but almost.

Maybe I wasn't worth remembering.