Top 1200 Futile Efforts Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.

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.

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

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

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

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

On a local level, hunters in states around the country have provided billions of dollars for conservation efforts. Money collected from hunting license sales, taxes on ammunition and firearms and other hunting equipment often goes directly to properly maintaining land and conservation efforts.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

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

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

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

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

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

This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from efforts focused on threat identification and sharing inside and outside of government, to our internal emphasis on developing and retaining new talent and changing the way we operate to evolve with the cyber threat.

I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

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

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

I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.

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

Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.

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

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

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

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

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

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

The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.

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

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