Top 342 Futile Quotes & Sayings

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

The moment I started watching my thoughts, I realized how futile fear is.

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

To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

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

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

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

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

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

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

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

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

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

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

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

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

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

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

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

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

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

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun second term drinking game, chug a beer every time you hear the phrase 'contentious but futile protest vote by democrats.' By the time Jeb Bush is elected, you'll be so wasted you won't even notice the war in Syria.

Without faith, life is futile.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

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

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The animal testing regime... is utterly futile

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

I pledge that the personal safety of Israeli citizens will not be futile.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.