Quotes About Futile Efforts

#1. No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Sometimes, like when she got sick, the edge comes to me. Sometimes that happens for no reason. The chasm widens inexplicably even as I run from it-run for my life-until the ground beneath me evaporates and I am lost again despite my best, but futile efforts.

Ka Hancock

#3. How devastated I am to say that I will not be present at your petite soiree on June 10th. Unfortunately, the exceptionally weak drinks you ordinarily serve at these occasions are not sufficient to dull my senses to your boyfriend's futile efforts to grope me in the hallway.

A.C. Kemp

#4. I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television ... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

Andrew Scott

#5. Self-actualized people ... live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Abraham H. Maslow

#6. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Ally Carter

#7. Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

Sara Ramirez

#8. Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.

Quintus Curtius

#9. I always thought the Nativity Story needed a little comic releif ...
Ron Shawver from The Great Northern Coven

Bruce Jenvey

#10. He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I am a Filipino, not a FilipiDont-know. Resourcefullness is in our culture

Janna Cachola

#12. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Frederic Bastiat

#13. Kind prince there is nothing in the realm of ideas that is absolute, therefore all efforts to form ideologies are ultimately futile.

Lao-Tzu

#14. Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

Thomas S. Monson

#15. You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV ... and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

Shannon Wheeler

#16. Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Victoria Wood

#17. The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Alan Watts

#18. Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

Carew Papritz

#19. Every brain is both a broadcasting station and a receiving station for the vibrations of thought.

Napoleon Hill

#20. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.

Ben Kingsley

#21. The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.

Boniface Wimmer

#22. He's holding a squirming Jamie in his arms, but her efforts to wiggle out of his grip are futile, because her daddy's strong as fuck.

Elle Kennedy