Quotes of Unproductive - somelinesforyou

“ It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ Nonvoting is a fruitless temper tantrum. ”

- Bruce Wright

“ It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin' ever really seems to come from it. ”

- Tom Petty

“ When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The most useless are those who never change through the years. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ The most useless are those who never change through the years. ”

- Sir James M. Barrie

“ Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. ”

- George Eliot

“ Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. ”

- Bible

“ All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. ”

- Wilfred Owen

“ There is nothing useless to men of sense. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. ”

- Irene Peter

“ Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ No one is useless in this world," retorted the Secretary, "who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines. ”

- George V. Higgins

“ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. ”

- Bryant H. McGill

“ It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ”

- Unknown

“ Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless. ”

- Nicolas Chamfort

“ The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. ”

- Louis Pasteur

“ Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ”

- Alfred Whitney Griswold
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