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Futility Quotes

Change is the only constant, and to turn one’s back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility Picture Quote #1

I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won’t keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty Picture Quote #1

You can’t make everybody love you. It’s an exercise in futility, and it’s probably not even a good idea to try Picture Quote #1

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models Picture Quote #1

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility Picture Quote #1

I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That’s why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline Picture Quote #1

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Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal Picture Quote #1

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established Picture Quote #1

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes Picture Quote #1

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility Picture Quote #1

... he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life Picture Quote #1

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility Picture Quote #1

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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility Picture Quote #1

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility Picture Quote #1

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility Picture Quote #1

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses Picture Quote #1

This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions Picture Quote #1

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes Picture Quote #1

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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man’s endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars Picture Quote #1

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people Picture Quote #1

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge Picture Quote #1

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit Picture Quote #1

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible? Picture Quote #1

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility Picture Quote #1

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You can’t make everybody love you. It’s an exercise in futility, and it’s probably not even a good idea to try Picture Quote #1

If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death Picture Quote #1

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility Picture Quote #1

The individual’s habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion Picture Quote #1

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it Picture Quote #1

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing Picture Quote #1

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Change is the only constant, and to turn one’s back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility. (Futility Quotes) I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won’t keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty. (Futility Quotes) You can’t make everybody love you. It’s an exercise in futility, and it’s probably not even a good idea to try. (Futility Quotes) Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. (Futility Quotes) Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility. (Futility Quotes) I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That’s why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline. (Futility Quotes) Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal (Futility Quotes) Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established (Futility Quotes) The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes (Futility Quotes) The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility (Futility Quotes) ... he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life (Futility Quotes) The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility (Futility Quotes) Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility (Futility Quotes) Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility (Futility Quotes) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility (Futility Quotes) So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses (Futility Quotes) This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions (Futility Quotes) There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes (Futility Quotes) You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man’s endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars (Futility Quotes) Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people (Futility Quotes) Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge (Futility Quotes) A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit (Futility Quotes) What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible? (Futility Quotes) Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility (Futility Quotes) You can’t make everybody love you. It’s an exercise in futility, and it’s probably not even a good idea to try (Futility Quotes) If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death (Futility Quotes) All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility (Futility Quotes) The individual’s habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion (Futility Quotes) It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it (Futility Quotes) In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing (Futility Quotes)

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