Ineffectually Quotes

#1. You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

Daniel Keidl

#2. Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. It was better to look the other way than to command ineffectually.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#3. Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,
like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#4. If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Albert Bandura

#5. You see, I'm not really left-handed."

"No!" Robert and Oliver spike together in joint outrage.

Sebastian's eyes widened. "An infidel! Stone him!" He looked wildly around, found a scrap of paper on the floor, and hurled it ineffectually at him. "Die, fiend, die!

Courtney Milan

#6. He went on like that for a while, and before he was done, Lucas had dismissed him as being ineffectually goofy, although his ideas about the killing were roughly the same as Lucas's own. Holly said he had no idea who on the staff might have been involved with Tubbs, or might be working as a spy.

John Sandford

#7. One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

Frederick Lenz

#8. With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Gail Sheehy

#9. Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times ... I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Elliott Erwitt

#10. Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

William Gaddis

#11. One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#12. People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

Alison Sweeney