Worthless Quotes - Page 7

• Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

  Aron Bielski

  Gun, Waiting, Rifles

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• Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Evil, Giving

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

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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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• As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

  Ian Mortimer

  Sports, Football, Loss

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• But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Giving, Trying

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• But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

  David James Duncan

  World, May, Lovers

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.516, Dial Press

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• What's wrong, little sis? You look upset." She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked...my...nail polish slapping your... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them. "Cute" He snorted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Upset, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Giving, Body, Mines

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• And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's dog. because, although he may be only a worthless, simpleminded, libertine artist, Lucien is my favorite, and I will not have him hurt. Do you understand?

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Hurt, Children

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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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• Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Littles, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicide, Thinking, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.946, Simon and Schuster

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• Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

  Francine Pascal

  Self Esteem, Feet, Feelings

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• On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.

  George Biddell Airy

  Giving, Machines, Entering

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• So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Letting Go, Loss

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• Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

  Michael Porter

  Goal, Analytics

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