“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is… — Eric Hoffer 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
The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Człowiek jest zły i cała jego działalność polega na robieniu niepotrzebnych rzeczy i gromadzeniu niepotrzebnej wiedzy.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
