In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Ideas are useless unless used.
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.
I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.
I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.
It is useless attacking the insensible.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Suspicion is very often a useless pain.