Useless Quotations | Page 3

Two-day games are useless as far as I'm concerned.

The month-on-month numbers are just totally useless unless the seasonal factor has been applied.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

People riddle their resumes with useless pieces of information. They don't tell you how the movie was made or show all the boring scenes, they give you the highlights.

Technology is completely useless unless you have a social network that it is supporting. We know that there's going to be life in this product, and we know that there are going to be deals that we can get from the partner programs.

There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

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?

We had a fair weekend in the Useless Bay/Double Bluff area. There was a lot of traffic up there. Everyone was obviously having trouble where they had been fishing. Saturday was good. Saturday was scratch fishing.

This case is forward-looking enough, dealing with the Internet and other technologies, that the outcome won't be useless once it's all over.

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

If the public and legislators come away saying, 'Oh, we can never get an answer from these scientists. It's useless to spend money testing diet' -- then a lot of damage will have been done. Nutrition is important. We've already learned a lot that offers people plenty of sound advice. But there is a lot more we can learn. We just have to approach it in a smarter way.

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?

It?s hard to explain the situation and how you?re feeling because there?s so many different emotions and you have no control over it. So you feel useless really, like there?s nothing you can do, but it?s exciting.

Their running game was rendered useless early on. Any time you can force a team to be one-dimensional, it sets the tone for the entire game.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.

These numbers are useless in doing a red light camera study.

It was a good day a mix of industry stuff and super-stupid useless celebrity nonsense. I mean they're all nonsense in one way or the other.

I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

The Gators were used to being in the SEC Championship Game. It was a school tradition. If they failed to reach those standards, they felt kind of useless and they didn't care about being here.

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another thing coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

The elderly are useless eaters.

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

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.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes.

This political discrimination is not conducive to cooperation, it is totally useless and should be abandoned. If we really look at mutual benefit this is what we should do.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

What talks can there be otherwise? It is useless trying to resolve the problem under bombs.

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

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them

I can create machine-readable definitions for functions but they are useless if the developer does not know how to use them.

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Life is a useless passion.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

There's something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it ... Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world's problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days.

Not all that is mortal is useless.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple of days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in this world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Ability without honor is useless.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Only useless things are indispensable.

And here I always thought morality was useless