Useless Quotes
1164 quotes by 886 authors
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless…
— Jose Rizal
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I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.
— Simone Elkeles
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I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even…
— Louis C. K.
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...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
— George R. R. Martin
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Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly.…
— Ayn Rand
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It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of…
— John Hodgman
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.…
— Anne Rice
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The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
— George R. R. Martin
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Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Life is a useless passion.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its…
— Sarah Dessen
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Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on…
— Shin Kyung-sook
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Emperors are vain and useless things.
— Scott Westerfeld
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I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because…
— Anne Rice
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In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present…
— Peter Straub
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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
— Aldo Leopold
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Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather
— Erin Hunter
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