Quotes of Futility - somelinesforyou

“ Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ”

- John Locke

“ The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ”

- Cher

“ If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Nothing will work unless you do. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. ”

- Pindar

“ No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. ”

- Seneca

“ He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ In dreams and love there are no impossibilities. ”

- Janos Arany

“ In dreams and love there are no impossibilities. ”

- Unknown

“ And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ”

- Saint Augustine

“ Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ”

- John Locke

“ Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. ”

- James Madison

“ Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ”

- Charles W. Chesnutt

“ Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ”

- William Blake

“ All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ”

- Hu Shih
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