Futile Quotes

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.