Useless Quotes - Page 26

• She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

  Anna Quindlen

  Animal, Guilt, Emotion

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.48, Random House

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• Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Grief, Writing, Would Be

  Jennifer Donnelly (2007). “The Tea Rose: A Novel”, p.561, Macmillan

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• You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

  Deb Caletti

  Powerful, Long, Having Hope

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

  James Allen

  Karma, Running, Weed

  James Allen (2009). “Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury”, p.147, Penguin

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

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• When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

  Max Lucado

  Faith, Forgiveness, God

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.640, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.

  Marissa Meyer

  Androids, Cry, Feels

  Marissa Meyer (2016). “Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Someday, Knows, Dies

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.76, Random House

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• I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

  John Newton

  Stupid, Temptation, Might

  John Newton (1782). “An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ********.: Communicated in a Series of Letters, to the Reverend Mr. Haweis, ... and by Him (at the Request of Friends) Now Made Public”, p.19

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• It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Useless Things

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press

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• But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Class, People

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• Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

  John Green

  Worry, Worried, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.697, Penguin

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• Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

  Dr. Seuss

  Confused, Race, Space

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• We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mind, Wade, Insult

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• Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

  Hilary Duff

  Rain, Waiting, Stories

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• But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Alaska, Knowing Better, Knows

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

  Jose Rizal

  Thinking, Tears, Church

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.44, BookBaby

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• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Self, Ego

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.

  Charlaine Harris

  Brother, Home, Son

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

  Melina Marchetta

  Selfish, Grief, Grieving

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• When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Moving, Years, Hours

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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• Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.

  Tom Perrotta

  Summer, People, Encounters

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

  John Green

  Regret, Permanent

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