#futile

Death, only, renders hope futile. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#futile #hope #only #renders

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ↗

— Rosalia de Castro

#discover #dream #earth #exist #futile

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#resistance-is-futile #change

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#going #happen #mom #perfect #trying

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive. ↗

— Charles Erwin Wilson

#birth #birth control #control #futile #like

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#arguing #argument #communication #debate #discourse

The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men. ↗

— Jeff Shaara

#war #men

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside. ↗

— Joe Brooks

#futile #holes #holes-inside #lyrics #music