Useless Quotes

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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the… — Cato the Elder
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to… — Dennis Lehane
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of… — Susa Young Gates
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless. — Thomas Jefferson
The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,… — Richard Henry Lee
Books are useless! I only ever read one book,Â To Kill a Mockingbird,Â and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds!… — Homer
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. — Henry A. Kissinger
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. — Elizabeth Bishop
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This… — Archilochus
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to… — William Rehnquist
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge… — Abdul Kalam
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless. — Larry Niven

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