Ineffectual Quotes
48 quotes by 40 authors
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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer…
— Nick Cave
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual…
— Cyril Connolly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
— Eric Hoffer
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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world…
— Horace
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Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
— Jacques Ellul
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Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.
— Vanna Bonta
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There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create…
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A…
— Dion Fortune
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I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is staring us all…
— Pepe Reina
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The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.
— Michael Frayn
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Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights…
— Peter Drucker
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The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence…
— Robert S. Mendelsohn
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Remote and ineffectual don.
— Hilaire Belloc
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One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably…
— Peter Baker
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Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual…
— George Orwell
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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual…
— Benjamin Franklin
Who Wrote These Ineffectual Quotes
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