Useless Quotes - Page 28

• What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.

  Gwee Li Sui

  School, Foundation, Literature

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• Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

  Cher

  Clueless, School, Boys

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• There's something to be said for useless
  days. You know, those days when you
  have nothing to do and all day to do it ...
  Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink
  may not cure the world's problems but it
  can really get your head in the right place.
  Those are my favorite kind of days.

  Kenny Chesney

  Beach, World, May

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  Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

  Marlon Brando

  Life, Regret, Past

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Apr 11, 2012

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• I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

  Michael Buble

  Fear Of Failure, Tendencies, Fear Of Success

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• People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

  Daphne Zuniga

  Power, People, Giving

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• The bullets are useless! And it's dilating!

  Whit Bissell

  Bullets

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• Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Oil, Matter, Patient

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• It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

  Margaret Deland

  Teaching, Genius, Deny

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Goodbye, Love You, Self

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

  Anna Pavlova

  Beauty, Nerves, Body

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Disease, Six

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• Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

  Laurie Colwin

  Success, Dream, Self

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• My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

  Paul Polman

  Technology, Bars, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Want, Doe

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• We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

  Roger Scruton

  Education, Mean, Priorities

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Garbage

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Soul, Erode, Acid

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• Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

  Nathanael Greene

  Integrity, Mean, Relief

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

  Andre Gide

  Complaining

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• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creating, Goes On, Destruction

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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