An Exercise In Futility Quotes

#1. He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

Jim Butcher

#2. Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

Anthony Carmona

#3. Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal.

Lissa Rankin

#4. Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

Ron Holland

#5. You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Robert Crumb

#6. The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

George Soros

#7. So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Danny Elfman

#8. Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.

Gary Inbinder

#9. My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

#10. I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.

Andy Kindler

#11. what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.

Patrick White