You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination;… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. — David W Augsburger Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are… — Monty Oum Copy Share Image
“Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
