Useless Quotes - Page 2

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

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

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

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

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

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

Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.

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

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

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

We don’t want to become old, rich and useless

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.