Futile Quotes
257 Futile quotes by 213 unique authors
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All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.
— Rajneesh
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It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a thousand and one…
— Rajneesh
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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
— George Earle Buckle
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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
— Unknown Author
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I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science.…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by…
— Unknown Author
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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress…
— Arianna Huffington
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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
— Rajneesh
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile…
— H. H. Asquith
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I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work…
— Henry Ford
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Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
— Helen Keller
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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know
— Terrence Howard
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Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
— Arianna Huffington
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Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous…
— Pascal Bruckner
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The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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