Pointless Quotes - Page 7

• What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Curiosity

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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 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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• 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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• With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Technology, Would Be, Four

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Pain, Dirty

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• 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.

  John Gardner

  Fall, Order, Long

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.110, Vintage

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, Sputnik, World

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Important, Trying, Each Day

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• Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

  Mary Balogh

  Journey, Next Week, Choices

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press

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• I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Towers, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.306, Random House

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• Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

  Steig Larsson

  Absurdity, Equations, Solutions

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• A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Personality, Cargo

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• Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Eagles, Burning

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, p.9, Pottermore

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