Useless Quotes

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

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?

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

A useless life is an early death.

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.