Useless Quotes

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

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.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Only useless things are indispensable.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

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