It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive. — Charles Erwin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Emotional duality is futile compared to the intricate multiplicity of Logic.” — Islam Al Hosieny Copy Share Image
Also, it is futile to hold on very tight to your man as this will just kill your love for each other. — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. — Adelaide Hasse Copy Share Image
It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long,… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost… — Laure Lacornette Copy Share Image
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long… — Morris Panych Copy Share Image
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Leave him alone.” I’ve spun and headed toward them before I can stop myself. My voice comes up from some black reserve… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“In our secular world, we no longer see eternal paradise as a carrot at the end of the stick of life, but… — Svend Brinkmann Copy Share Image
“Across the river he could see the burnt and crushed buildings of Fredericksburg, the debris piled along the streets, the scattered ruins… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to be relieved from her service: death. I would like to avoid it.” “I see. You wouldn’t… — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Copy Share Image
“To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
