Quotes of: Futility Keyword

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.

D.E. Navarro

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

Robert Kiyosaki

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Stanley Hauerwas

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Carl Andre

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

Graydon Carter

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search becomes futile – there is nothing left to find, no meaning to be dredged out of old receipts, newspaper ar...

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Deschooling Society

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

The Holiness of God

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

The Reader

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Richard J. Codey

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

Mika

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Charles Erwin Wilson

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and w...

Ma Jian

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Nelson Mandela

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Rosalia de Castro

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

George Carlin

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Charles R. Swindoll

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

John Howard Griffin