“The fatal futility of Fact.”
Henry James
“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
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom”
Ayn Rand
“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”
Cullen Hightower
“There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book”
Amy Lowell
“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.”
Carl Andre
“The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie”
Walter Horatio Pater
