Useless Quotes
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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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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David Deida
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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
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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
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
Wright Morris
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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
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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
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Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
E. L. Doctorow
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We don’t want to become old, rich and useless.
Roger Taylor Queen
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Victor Hugo
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He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
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WHEN THE BODY is rendered useless, the mind still runs like a bloodhound along well-worn trails of neurons, tracking the echoing questions: the confused family of whys, whats, and whens and their impossibly distant kin how. The search is exhaustive; the answers, elusive.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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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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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
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The thing in Mexico in 1983. I don't want to get into it again because it will open up a whole can of worms, but I apologized profusely and it made me a better person. It was a mistake but it's something I learned from. The other biggest mistake I made was supporting Sheffield United because they're fucking useless.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Ernest Hemingway
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Mo Rocca