#useless

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#favor #opinion #pass #remains #resolutions

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #culinary #molecular #sound #technique

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#i #know #largely #makes #me

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#else #fast #feet #strategy #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

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

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dressing #energy #like #pent #snappy

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

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 have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#behind #departed #each #earthly #i