Useless Quotes - Page 9

• The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Goal, Doe

  Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.121, Zondervan

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• To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wisdom, Memories

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• It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Powerful, Hero, Choices

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• Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

  Rich Mullins

  Song, Doors, Expression

  Song: Screen Door

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• To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

  Criss Jami

  Princess, Fighting, Live Laugh Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

  Clare Balding

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

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• Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Energy, Dull

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.85

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• The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Today, Would Be, Destroying

  Leonid Andreyev (1914). “Savva: The Life of Man : Two Plays ...”

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• I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.

  Franz Kafka

  Thinking, People, Effort

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• Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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• To a poet nothing can be useless.

  Samuel Johnson

  Poet

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.463

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• Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je  sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Impossible, Christ

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• Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Technology, Thinking, Views

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.

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• There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Useless Things, Two, World

  "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World". Book by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33, 2003.

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• I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water.

  David Letterman

  Hate, Coffee, Water

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• I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Buttons, Fantasy

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• It is useless work that darkens the heart.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Work, Heart

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.

  Andre Maurois

  School, Class, Unhappy

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by André Maurois, 1918.

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• The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.

  James G. Frazer

  Cities, Two, Numbers

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

  Laurie Garrett

  Vaccines, Battle, Pandemics

  "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

  Rachel Carson

  Land, Water, Community

  "Essay on the Biological Sciences". Good Reading, 1958.

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• Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Worry, Situation

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musician, Needs, Music Is

  "Éventuellement... (Possibly...)". Essay by Pierre Boulez (1952) published in his book "Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship" (p. 133), 1991.

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• L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Passion, Men

  'L'Être et le nèant' (1943) pt. 4, ch. 2

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