#useless

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#else #fast #feet #strategy #useless

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#against #attacks #continue #feel #futile

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#else #going #i #life #my life

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#people #production #results #things #too

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. ↗

— Thomas More

#even #everywhere #gold #hear #itself

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#difference #evil #good #good and evil #religion

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#i #i think #just #recipes #set

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#front #go #his way #i #line