Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.
Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.
I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.
the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.
Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.
There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
