Meaningless Quotes

638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. — Michael Josephson
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it… — Henry Petroski
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if… — Tarun J. Tejpal
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — Robert Genn
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. — Roy H. Williams
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation… — Dee Hock
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color… — Sydney J. Harris
Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying… — Dalai Lama
To always trust my instincts, to always believe I have something to offer — no matter how meaningless or stupid it may be — and… — Chelsea Handler
Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. — Peter Drucker
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to… — Richard Marcinko
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility — Thomas Szasz
I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned… — Greg Graffin
If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how… — Dorothy Draper
Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and… — Thomas Head Raddall
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to… — Leslie Stephen
At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney… — Tim Ferriss
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its… — Ray Kurzweil
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and… — Steve Tesich

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