#useless

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#because #characteristics #identifying #kinds #may

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battle #found #i #indispensable #planning

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#became #god #him #i #less

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. ↗

— Geronimo

#children #created #darkness #down #god

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#before #comes #depend #every #facts

Accusations are useless. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#bit #communicate #cooperate #exist #gadgets

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe