Useless Quotes - Page 14

• On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

  Bei Dao

  Hands, World, Being Human

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

  John Perry

  Long, Long Time, Seems

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Way, Programming, Follow Through

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

  Joanna Page

  Couple, Drama, Numbers

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

  Hugh Blair

  Worry, Weight, Trouble

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• The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

  Sai Baba

  Children, Educational, Mind

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Dream, Zero

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• All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.

  Richard Cumberland

  God, Mother, Children

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• Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Lord, Let Me

  1763 Journal entry, 22 Dec.

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• If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

  John Locke

  Health, Hands, Gaining Knowledge

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.296

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Two

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• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

  Jim Morrison

  Cutting, Thinking, Ugly

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• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

  Andre Dubus

  Twenties, Tonight, Literature

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Practice, Use

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

  Robert Bresson

  Hands, Economy, Disappear

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Important, Fabric

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Art Is, Chatter

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• Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Soul, May

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• The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

  Beth Orton

  Grief, Dna, Losing

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

  Sivananda

  Brain, Mind, Use

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