Worthless Quotes - Page 5

• Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Drinking, Doors, Rallying Cry

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• Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Successful, Emotional, Overcoming

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

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• Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

  Horace

  Son, Giving, Age

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

  Bruno Dumont

  Country, Artist, Dignity

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• General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

  Tucker Max

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• The worthless usually live long.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Values

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• It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

  Herman Melville

  Creativity, Exercise, Immature

  Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.179, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Pills, Would Be

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• He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

  Ellen Kushner

  Availability, Said

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.344, Spectra

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• The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Suffering, Doe, Fool

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

  Robertson Davies

  Knowledge, Order, Healthy

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Hate, Energy

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• My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

  Og Mandino

  Dream, Dust, Goal

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.129, Bantam

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• Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Heart, Action, Submission

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.40, Image

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• Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Approval Addiction”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Bipolar

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• The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.

  Unknown

  Tree, Spirit, Christmas Tree

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• The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

  Carter G. Woodson

  College, People, Majority

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Shoes, People

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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• Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

  Gerald Morris

  Given, Values

  Gerald Morris (2008). “Parsifal's Page”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Punishment, Gone, Fixing

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

  Bryan Davis

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

  Alexandra Bracken

  Girl, Boys, Cry

  "The Darkest Minds". Book by Alexandra Bracken, December 18, 2012.

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• Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.

  Lauren Oliver

  Years, Lost, Meaningless

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