Zitat des Tages über Zwecklos / Futile:
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
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.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
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.
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.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
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.
Death, only, renders hope futile.
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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.
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.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
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.
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
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.
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.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
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.
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?
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
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.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
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.
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.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.
