Useless Quotes
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I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
Carol S. Dweck -
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Walker Evans -
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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 on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron -
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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We don’t want to become old, rich and useless.
Roger Taylor Queen -
The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
Wright Morris -
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate -
He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild -
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.
Scipio Africanus
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Ernest Hemingway -
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo -
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran -
I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Mo Rocca -
Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
John Calvin
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle -
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin -
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
H. L. Mencken -
We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.
Geronimo