Pointless Quotes - Page 4

• Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

  Tarek Saab

  Goal, Forever, Catholic

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• The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Happiness And Love, Moments

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Disrespect, Way

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.

  Julian Critchley

  Availability, Impact, Drug

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• The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Silly

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• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Long, Sound

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• Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

  Iain Pears

  Philosophy, Exercise, Virtue

  "The Dream of Scipio". Book by Iain Pears, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

  Iain Pears

  Tyranny

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.44, Penguin

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• Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.

  Merlin Mann

  Exercise, Differences, Numbers

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• All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Compassion, Foundation, Destination

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• I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless.

  Simon Jordan

  Drag

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• It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

  Bill Watterson

  Squares, Important, Doe

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• "Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

  Sarah Mayberry

  Exercise, Doors, Car

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• My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.

  Joao Magueijo

  Courage, Science, Views

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• If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

  Seth Godin

  Unhappy, Enough Time, Tribes

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Years, Alive

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• I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

  Leona Lewis

  Thinking, Different, Want

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

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• I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Class, Numbers

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• I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

  Bruce Nauman

  Stupid, Hands, Interesting

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• The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

  William J. Brennan

  Punishment, Principles, Purpose

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• I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

  Sara Gruen

  Body, Convince

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• I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

  Linus Torvalds

  Couple, Exercise, Ubuntu

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• I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

  Matthew Healy

  Life Is, Without Music

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