Useless Quotes

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At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… — Thomas Pynchon
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — H.G. Wells
The younger one looked to be completely useless. — Megan Whalen Turner
It's useless to lecture a human. — Rick Riordan
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… — Aldo Leopold
Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! — Sue Limb
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.… — Kurt Vonnegut
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the… — Anton Chekhov
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. — Mark Helprin
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to… — Henri Nouwen
Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul… — Laura Esquivel
Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are… — Daniel Handler
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said… — Thomas Merton
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just… — Paul Newman
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is. — Lisa Kleypas
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. — Jane Espenson

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