“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
“It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade Copy Share Image
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are… — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Huh.” “Huh what?” “Would you look at this?” he asked, examining a small box. “It says it glows in the dark.” “So?”… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were,… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wandering.” — Ginger and Rosa Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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