Useless Quotes

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

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

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

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