Quotes by Useless It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it. Tom Petty uselessseemswork Nothing useless can be truly beautiful. Tony Wilson uselessbeautiful All art critics are useless or harmful. Umberto Boccioni criticsuselessart It is useless work that darkens the heart. Ursula K. Le Guin uselessworkheart It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself. Vernon Howard uselessreflectiontrying It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do. Veronica Roth uselessstupidgone Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. Victor Hugo uselessgiving Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything. Victor Hugo extravaganceuselesswish Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train Viktoria Komova uselessvegetableslooks The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively. Vilfredo Pareto effectivenessuselessstruggle Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery. Victor Hugo uselesssubstancedepth I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. Virginia C. Andrews careuselessmen It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Virginia Woolf uselesslanguagegreek This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think. Vladimir Putin issuesuselessthinking I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. Walter Legge committeesuselessart Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. Walter Lippmann politicaluselessfootball Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics. Walter Pater qualityuselessspecial A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Walter Lippmann uselesssleepmen A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function. Walter Lippmann cuttinguselessfacts We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. Werner Herzog exhausteduselessevolution«1718192021222324252627»
