#useless

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#course #know #nothing #than #things

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#around #because #else #everyone #fast

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#available #become #data #full-time #full-time job

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #just #just because #mean #planned

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ↗

— Moliere

#every #every heart #everyone #frank #heart