“Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile?” — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games. — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry,” he said. “I wish they’d let you two regenerate. I’ll keep asking them, I assure you.” She gave him… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
“ Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole?… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I cannot say anything about going away. I cannot say anything even in this diary. Perhaps it is better not to say… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
“I argued that you don’t know if your actions are futile; that you don’t have the memory of the future; that the… — Rebecca Solnit 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
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal,… — Harry Guntrip 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
“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
“My anxieties as to behavior are futile, ever more so, to infinity. If the other, incidentally or negligently, gives the telephone number… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it… — Solomon Copy Share Image
“Efficiency," of course, is futile … It has no philosophy for incidents before they happen; therefore it has no power of choice.… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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
