Fruitless Quotes

84 Fruitless quotes by 80 unique authors

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus… — Jack Lynch
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years… — John Steinbeck
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an… — Naomi Wolf
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with… — LZ Granderson
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy… — Dale Carnegie
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much… — Pema Chodron
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have… — Haruki Murakami
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have… — Frederick Buechner
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine… — William Shakespeare
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my… — Elisabeth Elliot
So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to… — Saint Augustine
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. — Sarah Silverman
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Acting unda d influence of d weather I keep drinking water wt d aim of flooding my heart so dat it wl beat slow each… — Obas Opeyemi
Loveless life is a fruitless tree, friends life is a rootless tree, Tree can live without fruit but not without root.!! — Unknown Author

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