Futile Quotes

257 Futile quotes by 213 unique authors

All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration. — Rajneesh
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
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. — George Earle Buckle
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen. — Rajneesh
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
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
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
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
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
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn. — Helen Keller
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
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen. — Arianna Huffington
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
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
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
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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