Useless Quotes

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The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within… — Marcus Aurelius
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness… — George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety… — Alan Coren
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans JeÂ sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without… — Blaise Pascal
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and… — Pope Francis
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. — Charles de Gaulle
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are… — Geronimo
A useless life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best. — Joan Collins
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless. — Billy Connolly
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. — Louis C. K.
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a… — Claire Danes
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of… — Democritus
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. — Charles Dickens
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. — Thomas A. Edison

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