#useless

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

There is nothing useless to men of sense. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#nothing #sense #useless

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#dreams #hally #life #life-lessons #life-sucks

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #pretty #six #useless #weak

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. ↗

— Darryl F. Zanuck

#both #disagree #job #men #then

Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#meaning #uselessness #dreams

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#better #designed #education #facts #feel

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#taking-tests #useless-information #cynicism

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #countless #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#futile #knowledge #useless #without