Worthless Quotes - Page 18

• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dream, Sadness, Years

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• I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

  Chris Patten

  Thinking, Important, Endeavor

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• Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.

  Geoff Davis

  Real, Organization, Fundraising

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• I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

  Al Yankovic

  Low Self Esteem, Noses, Boots

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Running, Fun, Program

  "New York Is Killing Me: The unlikely survival of Gil Scott-Heron" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. August 09, 2010.

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• Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Principles, Moral

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• When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

  Edward Everett

  Mourning, Sorrow, Tears

  Edward Everett (1836). “Life and Speeches”

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

  Washington Irving

  Weed, Roots, Tree

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 145, 1982.

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Love Is, Vices

  Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12

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• Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

  John Piper

  Faith, Religious, Taken

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• Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

  William Friedkin

  Today, Sequels, Originals

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Ideas, Talking

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.271

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• I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.

  Thao Nguyen

  Thinking, Trying, Matter

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• G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.

  Laszlo Bock

  Test Scores, Tests, Criteria

  "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Dirty, Kids, Four

  Abbie Hoffman (1969). “Woodstock nation: a talk-rock album”

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• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Cost

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• Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Giving, May

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Want, Strikes, Ifs

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• War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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• People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

  Amit Abraham

  People, Priceless, Values

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• Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects.
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  The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people's attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Yellow, White

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