Quotes About Ineffectiveness

Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!

What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.

Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009     Liberals are a useless lot.

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.

beating people up didn't seem to get results anymore.

For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures.

authors had analyzed fifty cases of purported "Islamic terrorist plots" against the United States, only to conclude that "virtually all of the perpetrators were 'incompetent, ineffective, unintelligent, idiotic, ignorant, unorganized, misguided, muddled, amateurish, dopey, unrealistic, moronic, irrational, and foolish.

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

And this, like all instincts, was a little distressing for people who did not share it; to Mr. Carmichael perhaps, to herself certainly. Some notion was in both of them about the ineffectiveness of action, the supremacy of thought. Her going was a reproach to them, gave a different twist to the world, so that they were led to protest, seeing their own prepossessions disappear, and clutch at them vanishing.

He ran his mind over the things they had said, the random, unnecessary things which had eddied round and round and used up all the time, and drawn them so close together and flung them so far apart and left him in the end unsatisfied, ignorant still of what she felt and of what she was like. What was the use of talking, talking, merely talking?

Alternation of sad human ineffectiveness with vast inhuman cycles of activity chilled him and he forgot his own human and ineffectual grieving

You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

There was a lot of swearing and ineffective bitch-slapping

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

What we are doing to develop leaders is not working! We are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease.

And I realize how faulty were my own perceptions, how clumsily I handled the situation, with what lack of wit and with what ineffectiveness did I deal with Nathan at a moment when supreme delicacy was called for… far from my mind was any idea that Nathan might be disturbed. I thought he was merely being a colossal prick. I regarded Nathan's outburst as a shocking failure of character, a lapse of decency, rather than the product of some aberration of mind.