Useless Quotes · Page 19

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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

— Klemens von Metternich

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

— Coco Chanel

Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers.

— Tobias Lutke

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

— Miyamoto Musashi

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have…

— J Balvin

“By being virtually useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”

— Philip Connors

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

— J. C. Ryle

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would…

— John C. Calhoun

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until…

— John Green

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of…

— Dean Inge

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when…

— Frederick Lenz

She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore.…

— Gail Carson Levine

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you…

— George S. Patton

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men…

— Charles Frazier

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:…

— Samuel Johnson

For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something…

— Vera Brittain

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools…

— Gwee Li Sui

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord';…

— J. C. Ryle

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High…

— Christian Louboutin

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's…

— George Friedman

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

— Paul Gauguin

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

— Tom Petty

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Dave Barry

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

— Ang Lee

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

— Anna Howard Shaw

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

— Anonymous

That is the most difficult thing: to feel that you are useless, not worth as much as before, not worth as much…

— Ilkay Gundogan

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

— Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

— Peter Drucker

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The most powerful remote in the world is useless if you don’t know which button changes the channel.”

— Adora Aiza

“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...”

— Marcel Proust

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

— William Cowper