Useless Quotes

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I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. — Stuart Weitzman
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. — Glenn Frey
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but… — Jacobus Arminius
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before… — Dan Millman
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try — Mary Stewart
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths… — Martin Gardner
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character. — Louis-Philippe I of France
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand… — Herbert Spencer
Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field. — Naveen Jain
The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics.… — David Gerrold
Plans are useless, but planning is essential. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,… — Bertrand Russell
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for… — Sophocles
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation… — Humphry Davy
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are… — Jules Massenet
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln

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