Exercise In Futility Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Jim Butcher

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

Robert Fripp

#12. 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

#13. I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

Hilary Swank

#14. You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Stephen Leacock

#15. A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

James Montgomery Bailey

#16. My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

Jeff Gordon

#17. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Winston S. Churchill

#18. She stilled in the early-morning sun and slowly turned to face Parker, who'd followed her out. He wore his clothes with the same ease he'd worn nothing at all. And dammit, she really needed to stop thinking about that.

Jill Shalvis

#19. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Gioconda Belli