Quotes of: Useless Keyword

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

On the Nature of History : Essays about History and Dissidence

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

That Book: ...of Perfectly Useless Information

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

He who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs.

Japanese

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese

When you can't find peace within yourself, it's useless to seek it elsewhere.

French

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.

Another Faust

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person s...

Martin Scorsese

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)

A.E. van Vogt

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I en...

We the Living

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 02

By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.' 'You can put it like that. I'm utterly useless.' 'Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely... inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the beginning.' 'I'm not that stupid. I know ...

The Lockharts

A human is useless & nothing without good deeds and kindness same as a beautiful red rose is nothing & useless without fragrance.… Living without a good purpose is also same as a paper flower…! People say We will not live forever, but i say our p...

zia

Cooper: You don't believe we went to the Moon? Ms. Kelly: I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines... Cooper: Useless machines? Ms. Kelly: And i...

Interstellar

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

John Bradley-West

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle...

Nights at the Circus