Zwecklos / Futile Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Zwecklos / Futile:

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. Hilaire Belloc

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

Todd Gitlin

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Tony Blair

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

Saul David

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

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.

John Perry Barlow

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr

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.

Arianna Huffington

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.

Alan Watts

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.

Ma Jian

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

Andrew Rosenthal

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

Hartley William Shawcross

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

Regina Brett

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.

Maya Lin

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Stanley Crouch

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

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.

Martha Beck

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.

Albert Camus

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Hilaire Belloc

In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

Raghuram Rajan

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

Mika

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Terrence Howard

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.

Jack Keane

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.

Michael Eric Dyson

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Arianna Huffington

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

Charles Erwin Wilson

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Lee Loevinger

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Richard J. Codey

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Blaise Pascal

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

Pope John Paul II

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.

Rosalia de Castro

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Anne Sullivan

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

Aisha Tyler

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

Ivica Dacic