Useless Quotes

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She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I… — Jennifer Donnelly
You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held,… — Deb Caletti
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it… — James Allen
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time… — Chief Seattle
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there.… — Paolo Giordano
I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I… — John Green
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) — Sebastian Junger
Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that… — Sarah Rees Brennan
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go… — John Green
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is… — John Green
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard… — Charles Bukowski
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and… — Charles Bukowski
Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed… — Emily Bronte
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe… — John Fowles

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