In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
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.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.
It's not that we have more patience as we grow older, it's just that we're too tired to care about all the pointless drama
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
