Useless Quotes - Page 3

• You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Change, Leadership, Gnarly

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• Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Golf, Men, Games

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• And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Liberty, Opinion

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• Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

  Archilochus

  Law, Safety, Littles

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• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Responsibility, Government, Issues

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

  Drake

  Hope, Humble, Rapper

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• Ability without honor is useless.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Army, Honor, Ability

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• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Times Like These, Worry, Idleness

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Desire, Want

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• Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

  Paul Newman

  Law, Racing, Firsts

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• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

  Jose Rizal

  Useless Life, Stones, Fields

  "An Asia of Tolerance and Humility That Learns from Each Other". Dinner Speech by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of the Nineteenth International Conference on "The Future of Asia", japan.kantei.go.jp. May 23, 2013.

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Useless Things

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• When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

  Henry Miller

  Friendship, Power, Appreciate

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

  Taryn Manning

  Singing, Acting, Ifs

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• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

  Sophocles

  Laughter, Children, Giving

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• Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

  Albert J. Nock

  Culture, Body, May

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• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Civilization, Energy, Dressings

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• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

  George Ade

  Best Friend, Time, Funny Friend

  George Ade (1903). “People You Know”

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• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Confidence, Self, Have Courage

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

  Billy Connolly

  Blow, Thinking, Make You Think

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