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Futile Quotes by Rex Stout
- God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
- I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready…
More Futile Quotes
- Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr
- Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it… — Tony Blair
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
- Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile… — Graydon Carter
- Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that… — Hideki Tojo
- The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will… — Boniface Wimmer
- I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
- What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton
- One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.… — Enrico Fermi
- If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns… — Rajneesh