Ineffectual Quotes

48 Ineffectual quotes by 40 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul
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
Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. — Vanna Bonta
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Remote and ineffectual don. — Hilaire Belloc
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
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
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
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
I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused,… — L. Neil Smith
We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy… — Robert Svoboda
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry. — Glenn Reynolds
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar

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