Best Futile Proverbs
257 Futile quotes by 213 unique authors
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He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s…
— Richard Matheson
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Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
— Megan Hart
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Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.
— Suzanne Collins
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You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in…
— Emma Forrest
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I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.
— Jeaniene Frost
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Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.
— Miranda Hart
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Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.
— Suzanne Collins
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
— Bertrand Russell
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
— R C Sproul
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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
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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
— Dale Carnegie
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
— Andrew Delbanco
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There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
— Albert Camus
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It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at…
— Unknown Author
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
— Cesare Pavese
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An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make…
— Jack W. Szostak
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Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.
— Ivica Dacic
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Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more…
— Lee Loevinger
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It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
— Charles Erwin Wilson
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of…
— Tony Blair
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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities…
— Bill Bryson
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The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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