(22 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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 fatal futility of Fact.”
Henry James
“When I got here, there was a sense of futility. If the old administration had stayed on here for three more years, I think football would have been dropped. We would have no marching band, and we'd be at about 12,000 students today.”
Jon Wefald
“It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.”
Charles Erwin Wilson
“It is becoming clear that we are rapidly approaching the point at which further waiting would be futile.”
Peter Kalikow
“I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.”
Greg Valliere
