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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. — Frank Herbert

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you. — Charlie Chaplin

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. — R.C. Sproul

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people. — Virginia Woolf

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later. — Criss Jami

We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Not in this lifetime, buddy," I said finally. "Resistance is futile, Kitten." "So is your charm." "We'll see. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. — Rosalia De Castro

It's futile to talk reason to anger — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won't come back. It likes its safety in memory. — Adib Khan

It's futile to predict what love will make of you, but sometimes it brings you things you never knew you wanted. — Mohammed Hanif

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile. — T.F. Hodge

We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!"
"Don't you mean futile?"
" ... That's what I said! Surrender or die! — Toby Frost

Only the pointless is worthwhile, all else is futile. — Giovanna Stefani

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. — Eric Hoffer

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes. — Guy Gavriel Kay

His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything. — W. Somerset Maugham

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? — Eckhart Tolle

He's holding a squirming Jamie in his arms, but her efforts to wiggle out of his grip are futile, because her daddy's strong as fuck. — Elle Kennedy

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

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made. — Milan Kundera

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. — Cesare Pavese

Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile. — Debasish Mridha

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! — Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work. — Mason Cooley

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. — Alfred Stieglitz

I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile? — Douglas Kennedy

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. — Elizabeth Bowen

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight. — Robert Kiyosaki

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. — Andrew Bird

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Resistance was normal; however, it was generally futile as well. Being — Evan Currie

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. — Stefan Zweig

It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive. — Charles Erwin Wilson

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. — Paul Hawken

Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."
Nevada: "You are not assimilating me! — Ilona Andrews

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. — Evelyn Waugh

What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave. — Henry Van Dyke

Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space. — Margaret Atwood

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. — Bertrand Russell

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system — Killer Mike

how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation. — William Arthur Ward

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book. — Andy Rooney

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood — Arun Joshi

The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will. — Sheri S. Tepper

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest. — Helen Steiner Rice

I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible anyway. — Donna Lynn Hope

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. — Tony Blair

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg

Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe. — Robin Bertram

I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile. — Jeaniene Frost

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand

It is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous. — Rafael Sabatini

Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily. — Henry Miller

Kind prince there is nothing in the realm of ideas that is absolute, therefore all efforts to form ideologies are ultimately futile. — Lao-Tzu

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well. — Thomas A Kempis

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. — Stanley Crouch

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile — Marty Rubin

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile. — Brian Sutton-Smith

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

I've seen all I need to. I'm going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Charles R. Swindoll

Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile - what they said, what they did - she said something perfectly commonplace again. — Virginia Woolf

If you're waiting for my good looks to fade ... it's a futile waste of time. Give up at once. - (Christian Wright) — Jennifer DeLucy

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance. — Jerry Bridges

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell

Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair, and I will begin to think again. — Sylvia Plath

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile. — Gary Gulman

Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile. — Frederick Maurice

Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where — Adam Hamilton

Resistance is futile, Kitten"..."So is your charm. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing. — Vicki Lesage

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. — Anne Sullivan

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

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. — Hideki Tojo

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice. — Ayn Rand

Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries. — Quintus Curtius

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. — Douglas Alexander

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. — Norman Vincent Peale

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. — Regina Brett

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

It was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards. — Lisa Shearin

By the way, I've decided there's no such thing as a simple life. It's futile to even pursue one. — Elizabeth Brundage

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen. — Rajneesh

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

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none. — Marty Rubin

I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back. — Suzanne Collins

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns. — Simonides Of Ceos

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile. — Ivica Dacic

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain. — Bethany Brookbank

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ... — John Geddes