Futilely Quotes

#1. Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world - while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.

Arianna Huffington

#2. It's funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of it.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.

Steven C. Hayes

#4. She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

Terry Brooks

#5. Farewell, my friend, Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

R.A. Salvatore

#6. Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely,
Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;
Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude certainly,
And never indulges in drinking is a person who is always happy.
[99] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

Munindra Misra

#7. Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.

John Williams

#8. I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed.
Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.

Rachel Caine

#9. The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

William Faulkner

#10. And I have no intention of going out with him just because he's "in love" with me. Which he's probably not. Because why would he be? I'm not pretty, and I like to use words with a lot of letters in them - two big turn-offs for guys.

Louise Rozett

#11. He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope."
"I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking ...

Lloyd Alexander

#12. He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.

John Hunter

#14. Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart

Rebecca Solnit

#15. Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

David Lagercrantz

#16. I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

P.C. Cast

#17. The last thing you want to do is lose sight of your limit. Please don't allow that to happen..... We all have a limit. What we're willing to put up with before we break.

Colleen Hoover