It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true
What chiefly governs the [U. S. ] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
Boycotting the referendum is a possible option. . . because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.