Worthless Quotes - Page 12

• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  Lewis Mumford

  Writing, Men, Toys

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• Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Age

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• Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Media

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• I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke.

  Sara Gruen

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, May 26, 2006.

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• It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Literature, World

  Stephen Crane, Joseph Katz (1970). “Stephen Crane in the West and Mexico”

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• On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Essence, Culture

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• Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Names, Host, Mark

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• You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

  Dean Koontz

  Love Is, Thinking, Fur

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.326, Penguin

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• So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

  Franz Kafka

  Said

  Franz Kafka (2012). “Amerika”, p.133, Schocken

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• Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taught, Values

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

  B. F. Skinner

  Order, Years, Style

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Fall, Opportunity

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• I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Kids, Rose

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Conclusion

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Doors

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• Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pride, Funny Things, Treasure

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.111, Penguin

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• I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Risk, Should

  "Fictional character: Marguerite". "Camille", 1936.

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

  Ken Kesey

  Hands, Numbers, Alarms

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

  Ian Mcewan

  Ideas, People, Design

  "Black Dogs". Book by Ian McEwan, December 29, 1998.

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• There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

  Tao Lin

  Mistake, Loneliness, Long

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• Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Mathematical, Please

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• Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

  Ted Dekker

  Growing Up, Father, Mind

  Ted Dekker, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Purpose, Assets

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• I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!

  Rick Riordan

  Love Is, Armor, Shows

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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