Futile
Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
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Futile Quotations
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
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II
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
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
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
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
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
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
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.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
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
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
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
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Arianna Huffington
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Anne Sullivan Macy
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Stanley Crouch
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 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
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
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
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti
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
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Charles Erwin Wilson
Death, only, renders hope futile.
Edgar Rice Burroghs
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Hartley William Shawcross
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Futile Translations
futile in Afrikaans is vrugteloos
futile in Dutch is vergeefs, ijdel, nutteloos
futile in Finnish is turha
futile in French is vain
futile in German is zwecklos, sinnlos, nutzlos
futile in Norwegian is intetsigende, forgjeves
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