Useless Quotes:

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

- A. J. Jacobs

topic: Alive, Useless, Emotion

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

- Aaron Copland

topic: Useless, Not Happy, Satisfied

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

topic: Oil, Useless, Matter, Uncooperative

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 Coles

source: 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

topic: Sweet, Women, Useless, Bereft

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

- Abu Bakr

topic: Useless, Action, Martial Arts, Caliphs, Useless Knowledge

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 Coren

source: Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

topic: Useless, Today, Cigarette, Souvenirs, Forgettable

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 Goldsher

source: Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

topic: Zombie, Hunters, Useless

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

- Albert Camus

topic: Useless, Pity, Grows

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

topic: Culture, Useless, Body, Useless Knowledge

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

- Albert J. Nock

topic: Useless, Sound, Public Opinion, Disinterested, Disinterest

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

topic: Useless, Sides, Steps

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Education, Ideas, Useless, Unschooling

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

topic: Stories, Useless, Littles

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

topic: Essentials, Useless, Deceiving, Deeper Meaning, Euphoric

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

- Alton Brown

topic: Technique, Sound, Useless

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

- Anna Pavlova

topic: Beauty, Nerves, Useless

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Animal, Guilt, Useless

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

topic: Believe, Order, Useless

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

topic: Escaping, Useless, Prison, Madhouses

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

topic: People, Useless, Looks, Good Lawyer

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

topic: Law, Safety, Useless

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

topic: Positive, Regret, Useless, Life Regret, Wasting My Time

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

topic: Wise, Light, Useless, Stout

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

topic: Men, Religion, Useless

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Useless, Planning, Valuable

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Knowledge, Useless, Pleasure, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Gained

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

topic: Men, Useless, Instinct

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Useless, Adaptability, Term

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

topic: Dirty, Broken, Useless, Useless Things

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

topic: Jesus, Useless, Impossible

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Water, Trying, Useless

The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

- C. Lloyd Morgan

topic: Purpose, Useless, Consciousness

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Life, Useless, Hopeless

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

- Carol S. Dweck

source: Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

topic: Growth, Useless, Vivid, Growth Mindset

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Inspirational, Useless, Tomorrow

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.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Beauty, Monsters, Useless, Tedious

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

- Charles II of England

source: "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.

topic: Useless, Unnecessary, Understood

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

- Charles Inglis

topic: Country, Uprising, Useless

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

- Charles Simmons

topic: Intellectual, Intelligence, Useless

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Wind, Useless, Ships, Spirit Of God

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

- Cher

topic: School, Boys, Useless

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Feel Better, Games, Useless, Invisible Monsters, Game Shows

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Giving Up, Useless, Realizing

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

- Claude C. Hopkins

topic: Sacrifice, Attention, Useless

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

- Colin Powell

topic: Leader, Nuclear, Useless

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

- Confucius

topic: Practice, Essentials, Useless, Knowledge Is Dangerous

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Thinking, Roots, Useless, Deep Roots, Fretting

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

- Dan Inosanto

topic: Add, Research, Useless, Absorbing

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

- Daniele Bolelli

source: Daniele Bolelli (2013). “Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions”, p.108, Red Wheel Weiser

topic: Useless, Oppression, Openness

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

- Daphne Zuniga

topic: People, Giving, Useless

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

- Dave Barry

topic: Would Be, Useless, Stamp Collecting

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

- David Lloyd George

source: "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

topic: League, Armenia, Useless, Humbug, League Of Nations

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

- David Sedaris

topic: Struggle, Ignorant, Useless

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Powerful, Useless, Most Powerful

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

- Deb Caletti

topic: Powerful, Long, Useless

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

- Deena Metzger

source: Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

topic: Creative, Wish, Useless

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

- Dejan Stojanovic

topic: People, Answers, Useless

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

- Democritus

topic: Men, Giving, Useless

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

- Dennis Prager

topic: Differences, Evil, Useless

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

- Dhani Harrison

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Design, Useless, Way, Web Content

Accusations are useless.

- Dominique de Villepin

source: "Sarkozy’s “Worst Nightmare”: An Interview With Dominique de Villepin". Interview with Alexandre Devecchio, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Useless, Accusation

Because like all ***** you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: Gold, Useless, Ethics

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

- E. T. A. Hoffmann

topic: Creating, Goes On, Useless

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Civilization, Age, Useless

Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable “surprise-a-mentals”.

- Ed Seykota

topic: Believe, Useless, Might

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Useless, Virtue, Morose

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Errors, Useless, Repentance, Irreparable

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

- Elisabeth Elliot

topic: Moving, Years, Useless, Passion And Purity, Unendurable

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

- Elizabeth Bishop

topic: Art, Self, Useless, Forgetful

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Who Cares, Useless, Tomorrow

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

- Erlend Loe

source: Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.55, Canongate Books

topic: Mind, Useless, Information, Useful Information

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Sorry, Love You, Useless

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

- Esther Williams

topic: Athlete, Useless, Share

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

- Eugene Ionesco

topic: Art, Doe, Useless, Uselessness

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Nurse, Useless, May

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

- Frances Farmer

source: "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

topic: Atheism, Useless, Littles, Useless Things

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

- Frances Wright

source: Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.203

topic: Hypocrisy, Promise, Useless

Only useless things are indispensable.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Useless, Indispensable, Uselessness, Useless Things

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

- Francis Picabia

source: "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

topic: Art, Useless, Impossible

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

- Frank Beddor

topic: Men, Feelings, Useless, Excluded, Bravo

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Experts, Useless, Chaos

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

- Friedrich Engels

source: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

topic: Order, People, Useless

She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.

- Gail Carson Levine

topic: Rainbow, Asking, Useless, Maybe Tomorrow

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

- Gary Renard

source: Gary R. Renard (2010). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Useless, Metaphysics

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

- Georg Brandes

topic: Army, Ideas, Useless

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

- George Eliot

topic: Useless, Consumerism, Deals, Useless Things

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

- George S. Patton

topic: Courage, Army, Useless, Useless Stuff

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

- George Santayana

topic: Music, Useless, Life Is

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

- George Santayana

topic: Music, Musician, Useless

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.

- George Sarton

source: George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation

topic: Purpose, Useless, Welcome, Philosophic, Unwelcome

To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

- George Washington

topic: Spring, Order, Useless

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

- Georges Clemenceau

source: "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World". Book by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33, 2003.

topic: Two, Useless, World, Appendix, Useless Things

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

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Confidence, Self, Useless

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

- Gichin Funakoshi

topic: Useless, Emergencies, Karate

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

- Glenn Frey

topic: Dad, Useless, Matter, Insufferable

Power unused is power useless.

- Gloria Feldt

topic: Useless

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

- Guy Pearce

topic: Useless, Exhausted

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Pain, Useless, Evolution, Useless Things

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

- Harry Vardon

source: Harry Vardon (2010). “The Complete Golfer”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Golf, Games, Useless

Ideas without action are useless.

- Helen Keller

topic: Ideas, Useless, Action

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

source: Quoted by Richard Foster in "Renovare perspective", Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1997.

topic: Self, Two, Useless, Commoners

Most animal experimentation is useless.

- Henry Heimlich

topic: Animal, Useless, Cruelty, Animal Experimentation

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

- Henry Mayhew

source: Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157

topic: Ideas, Elements, Useless

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Support, Useless, Lows

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

- Herodotus

topic: Islands, Two, Useless

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

- Herophilos

topic: Health, Null, Useless

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Brother, Sorry, Useless, Brat

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

- Horace

topic: Useless, Deeds, Wealth, Seaweed

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

- Indra Devi

topic: Clouds, Mind, Useless, Debris, Ballast

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

- Ingrid Law

topic: Heartache, Useless, Causes

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Useless, Tribes, Ancient

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

- Ismail Kadaré

topic: Envy, Mind, Useless, Days Like This, Family Quarrel

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Cost, Crowns, Useless, Unworthy, Uselessness

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Revenge, Useless, Heal, Lord Of The Ring, Frodo Baggins

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: Mother, Lunch, Useless

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

- Jack Vance

topic: Reality, Complaining, Useless, Inexorable

In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

- Jacobus Arminius

topic: Men, Grace, Useless, Divine Grace

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Useless

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

- James Gandolfini

topic: Character, Useless, Littles, Ranting And Raving

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

- Jan Tschichold

topic: Essentials, Useless, Shapes, Rendering

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

- Jane Espenson

source: "Firefly (TV Series): Shindig". www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: People, Forgiving, Useless

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

- Jasper Carrott

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Useless, Cooks

Sensible people find nothing useless.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: People, Useless, Sensible

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: People, Useless, Sensible

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

topic: Mediocrity, Bazaars, Useless, Impudence

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Rags, Useless, Want, Opulence

And here I always thought morality was useless

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Useless, Morality

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

- John Barnes

source: "The Armies of Memory".

topic: People, Giving, Useless

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

- John Calvin

topic: Useless, Vain

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....

- John Marshall

topic: Liberty, Useless, May

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

- John Mayer

topic: School, Useless, Spoons, Sporks

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

- John Newton

topic: Stupid, Temptation, Useless

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

- John Ruskin

topic: Pride, Someone You Love, Useless, Ego And Pride, Sin Of Pride

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

- John Wesley

topic: Useless, May, Grants

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

- Jose Rizal

topic: Useless, Stones, Fields, Edifice, Efforts Wasted

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

- Josh Kaufman

topic: School, Majority, Useless, Theoretical, Business School

I cannot abide useless people.

- Joss Whedon

topic: People, Useless

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

- Joy Behar

topic: Useless, Emotion

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

- Jules Massenet

source: Jules Massenet (1971). “My Recollections (1848-1912).”

topic: Stars, Departed, Useless

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

- Jules Verne

topic: Mean, Men, Useless

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

- Kakha Bendukidze

topic: Government, Liberty, Useless

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

- Katherine Boo

topic: Stupid, Useless, Awe

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

- Katy Lederer

source: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Useless, Ghost, Misled, Wordsworth

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

- Keith Raniere

topic: Emotional, Knowing, Useless, Knowing What To Do, Emotional Strength

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

- Ken Danby

topic: Details, Useless, Sake

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

- Ken Jeong

topic: Believe, Tools, Useless

There's something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it ... Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world's problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days.

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Beach, May, Useless, Right Place

People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful

- Kim Do-Jin

topic: People, Needs, Useless

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

- Klemens von Metternich

topic: Ideas, History, Useless, Uselessness

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: People, Together, Useless

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

source: L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.149, Macmillan

topic: Understanding, Humanity, Useless

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

- Lafcadio Hearn

source: Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

topic: Great Day, Useless, Examination

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

- Laini Taylor

topic: Grief, Useless, Made

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

- Larry Niven

topic: Real, Useless

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

- Laurence Fox

source: "Laurence Fox: 'I knew Billie was the one for me...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

topic: Home, Nerves, Useless

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

- Laurence Gartel

topic: Life Changing, Degrees, Useless, Useless Information

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

- Leonid Andreyev

topic: Would Be, Useless, Today, Unchangeable

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

- Leslie Marmon Silko

topic: Writing, Doe, Useless

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

- Lewis Fry Richardson

topic: Choices, Useless, Might

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

- Lisa Genova

source: Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

topic: Support, Useless, Neurons, Cellular, Ability To Communicate

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.386, St. Martin's Press

topic: Men, Needs, Useless

Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.

- Lobsang Rampa

topic: Believe, Useless, Body, Repelling

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Travel, Bored, Useless, Being Bored, Useless Things

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

- Louis-Philippe I of France

topic: Character, Quality, Useless

When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.

- Louise Rennison

source: Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

topic: Dad, Party, Useless, Volvo

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

- Maggie Kuhn

topic: Age, Useless, Disease

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Leader, Useless

Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

- Manuel Neuer

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Add, Useless

Ability without honor is useless.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Army, Honor, Useless, Uselessness

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

- Margaret Deland

topic: Teaching, Genius, Useless

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Mind, Wade, Useless

Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.

- Marissa Meyer

source: Marissa Meyer (2016). “Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection”, p.80, Macmillan

topic: Androids, Useless, Cry

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

- Mark Carney

topic: Business, Useless, Management

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

- Mark Helprin

topic: Useless, Today, Why Not

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

- Marlon Brando

source: FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Apr 11, 2012

topic: Regret, Past, Useless

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

- Martha Gellhorn

source: Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

topic: Fate, Trying, Useless

Useless as a pulled tooth.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Sarcastic, Teeth, Useless

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

- Mary Stewart

source: Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

topic: Essence, Trying, Useless

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

- Matthew Collings

topic: Art, Ideas, Useless

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

- Meg Cabot

topic: Taken, Class, Useless, Bios

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

- Megan McCafferty

topic: School, Gpa, Useless

There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

- Merritt A. Edson

topic: Marine, Marine Corps, Useless

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

- Michael Buble

topic: Useless, Fear Of Failure, Tendencies, Fear Of Success

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

- Michael Palin

topic: Character, People, Useless

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Mean, People, Useless

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

- Minnie Driver

topic: Useless

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

- Mira Nair

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Useless, Nostalgia, Stasis, Useless Things

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

- Mircea Eliade

topic: Useless, Realizing, Melancholy

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

- Mo Rocca

topic: Useless, Useless Things

...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.

- Muhammad Yunus

source: Muhammad Yunus (2010). “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs”, p.66, PublicAffairs

topic: Two, People, Useless, Counter Culture, Two Way Street

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

- Murasaki Shikibu

source: Amy Lowell, Murasaki Shikibu, Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi (2003). “Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan”, p.24, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Feelings, Useless, One Sided

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Useless, Action, Good Intentions

Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

- Natalie Babbitt

source: "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.

topic: Rocks, Dying, Useless

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

topic: Men, Useless, World

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Understanding, Useless, Don't Need You, I Don't Need You

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

- Nikki Cox

topic: Useless, Cooks

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Thinking, Matter, Useless

The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.

topic: Effort, Battle, Useless

Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Useless, Essentials, Hindrance

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

- Paul Newman

topic: Law, Firsts, Useless, Car Racing, Race Motivational