Futile Quotes
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the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad
Stephen Leacock
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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie
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[Returning to Los Angeles after a 20-year self-imposed exile to accept his honorary Oscar in 1971] Thank you so much. This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble . . . I can only say that . . . thank you for the honor of invitin...
Charlie Chaplin
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it`s pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Anthony Minghella
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I have no regrets, real regrets about any darn thing...I think second-guessing one`s self and your life is the most futile thing in the world.
James Whitmore
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[December 1998] To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake.
Anthony Hopkins
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Acting is such a weird profession. It`s such a futile thing. Even when it`s there on film, there`s nothing really to it. It is not like making a piece of furniture or writing a book.
Max Sydow
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Ahmad Shah Massood
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II
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Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Arianna Huffington
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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Alexandre Barros
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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no difference...
Arianna Huffington
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
Alan Blackledge
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It didn`t matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we`d found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
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I realized midway through the race that it was futile to try and catch Fernando and we were safely in second, which is tremendous for everyone in the team,
Jarno Trulli
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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don`t even understand that which they know.
Terrence Howard
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I have no regrets, real regrets about any darn thing... I think second-guessing one`s self and your life is the most futile thing in the world.
James Whitmore
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During the 1990s, the enemies of freedom used terror and violence in futile attempts to intimidate the United States and the cause of freedom.
John Boehner
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All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
Todd Gitlin
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[The story is a roller-coaster of hope, joy, devastation, disbelief, and numbness.] Words are futile. ... The pain is boundless.
Gloria Hunniford
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Why shouldn`t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
