Quotes About Ineffectiveness

One can hardly find a more perfect example of the impotence and fatuity of waging war by committee, or rather by groups of committees.

And the ridiculous impotence of words in the face of life!

Remote and ineffectual don.

last night. As far as I know.' Meg groaned. 'You're all fucking useless

Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

He ordered another glass of rosé, and the second one proved as ineffective as the first.

He was smoking his joint now, and it was having no effect upon him.

Talking to morons like that is like pissing in a urinal full of cigarette butts, like shitting in a toilet full of Tampax: nothing gets flushed, and everything starts to stink.

All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.