Futility Quote by Ken MacLeod Download Open image ““Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.”” — Ken MacLeod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Futility Manifest destiny
“Together, the bow and arrow whisper that destiny is not in the weapon, but in the unseen aim beyond the horizon.” — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“You are the deer shot through with arrows whose heart grows cold for want of being taken.” — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes… — Kautilya Copy Share Image
“Against the tide of violence something spoken from the silence like an arrow parting air with the sharpened point of love.” — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.” — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. Such is the fate of iron ore.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars? — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“She read it over, decided it was too complicated for Memo , and ran it through an app called MyTxt4Dummies.” — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“On this rock we had built our church. We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism on crass… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Comrades and friends,’ he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.” — Yeo-tze Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Uite, daca-mi strang sufletul, nu se prinde nimic in el. Oricum, am ajuns departe, foarte departe. O mai fi ceva? Arborii cresc, le dau… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter,… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
