Useless Quotes - Page 8

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.

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 not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

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

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

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.