Quotes by Useless It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing. J. R. R. Tolkien lord-of-the-ring useless revenge I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it. Jack Dorsey lunch useless mother Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless! J. C. Ryle useless christian men It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. Jack Vance useless complaining reality In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace. Jacobus Arminius useless grace men According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them. Jacques Ellul useless development matter Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. James Branch Cabell useless tasks life So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless. Jamaica Kincaid useless writing fiction Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. James G. Frazer sacrifice useless men I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character. James Gandolfini saws useless character Most everything government does is worse than useless. James Cook useless government doe 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 programming useless way 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. Jan Tschichold essentials useless shapes Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. Jane Espenson forgiving useless people It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists. Jane Goodall generations useless would-be I have to confess here that I am a useless cook. Jasper Carrott cooks useless Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle useless teaching teacher The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres bazaars mediocrity useless The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants. Jean-Baptiste Say rags useless want Sensible people find nothing useless. Jean de La Fontaine useless sensible people «678910111213141516»