Quotes About Aimlessness

#1. There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

T.E. Lawrence

#2. Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.

Todd Henry

#3. Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg

#4. ...I sit there aimlessly, God's aim is aimlessness.

Nescio

#5. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life ... Freedom demands structure.

Garrison Keillor

#7. We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

#8. Funny, how things became very simple once a man's course was decided. It was the aimlessness of choice that made mischief, among both sidhe and mortals.

Lilith Saintcrow

#9. Those who choose to have no real purpose in life are ever rootless and dissatisfied, tossed by their aimlessness into ever-changing situations.

Seneca.

#10. Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

Hans Selye

#11. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

#12. In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

Tim O'Brien

#13. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

James Allen

#14. There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#15. There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

Marty Rubin

#16. Bibliomancy: Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Marilyn Johnson

#17. One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

Sonia Johnson

#18. Never have a plan; it'll just get in your way.

Marty Rubin

#19. ...when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own - then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to treat the other as a person. All injustice and cruelty come, basically, from this distorted view of reality.

Sydney J. Harris

#20. We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We hope to distract them, keep them busy. Burial is a hope.

David Vann

#21. As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

Tom Brady

#22. I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances.

Janet Evanovich

#23. We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey

Marty Rubin

#24. Life may be nothing but a series of detours.

Marty Rubin

#25. One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

Suzy Kassem

#26. The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.

J.D. Vance

#27. Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Benjamin De Casseres

#28. It had been a long quest. Yet I was within casting distance of my dream.

Fennel Hudson

#29. After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#30. A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.

Marty Rubin

#31. I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Colin Cotterill

#32. The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Wesley Clark

#33. My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele