Quotes and Sayings About Useless
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
-- Abu Bakr -
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
-- Alan CorenSource : Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books
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Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!
-- Alan GoldsherSource : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
-- Albert J. Nock -
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
-- Alfred Adler -
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
-- Alice Englert -
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
-- Allen Steck -
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
-- Alton Brown -
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
-- Anna Pavlova -
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She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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.
-- Anne Stevenson -
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
-- Anton Chekhov -
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
-- Antonin Scalia -
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Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
-- Archilochus -
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
-- Ben Horowitz -
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
-- Bertrand Russell -
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
-- Bill Bryson -
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Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.
-- Billie Letts -
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
-- Blaise Pascal