#useless

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

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. ↗

— John Wilkes Booth

#died #i #mother #tell #useless

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#flux #life #meditation #nihilism #philosophy

Accusations are useless. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

MarkBaynard: If you start hanging out over here, won't your Facebook Friends miss you? Abby_Donovan: Those people weren't my friends. If they had been, they wouldn't have sent me all those annoying quizzes. MarkBaynard: A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. Abby_Donovan: Although with a little coaxing, I might be persuaded to take home your imaginary kitten. So how is Twitter different from Facebook? MarkBaynard: Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. ↗

— Teresa Medeiros

#twitter

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #committees #convinced #i #i am

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#ever #game #golf #man #most

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#conscience #constitution #draw #experience #good

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friend #i #indispensable #long #love

No man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#man #useless #while