Words matter. These are the best Futile Quotes from famous people such as Joy Reid, Albert Camus, Maya Lin, Abu Bakr, Carl Andre, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
Death, only, renders hope futile.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
What happens when we’re willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad – but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
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.
There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we’re still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
It is futile to talk too much about the past… like trying to make birth control retroactive.
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.
I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime’s strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail… engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
In the knockout tournaments, it’s futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don’t see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Without faith, life is futile.
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.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them – part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it’s futile. The reality is there’s criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.
Criticising the other fellow because he’s in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore… prove ultimately futile.
It didn’t matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we’d found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
