Useless Quotes
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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 -
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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Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Demonax -
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
George Bernard Shaw -
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 -
Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
Sarah Dessen -
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
Jose Rizal
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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 -
Most everything government does is worse than useless.
James Cook -
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 -
If my face was covered, I would be useless.
Aaryn Gries -
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo -
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding -
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
Walter Karp -
Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
Mahatma Gandhi -
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Mo Rocca -
In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
Corinne Maier -
One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Albert Camus -
I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
Nikki Cox