Useless Quotes - Page 3

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

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

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

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

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.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

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 have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

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.

The elderly are useless eaters.