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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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.
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.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
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.
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.
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.
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
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.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.
It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.
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.
In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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.
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
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.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
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.
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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.
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
