Quotes About Valueless

#1. It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

Anne O'Brien

#2. To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Marsha Sinetar

#3. If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

Saadi

#4. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

#5. Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

#6. I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

Michael Frayn

#7. Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave.
-Lt. Edward Beale, Congress report on Arizona, 1858

Sean Condon

#9. Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn't remember selling it, least she wasn't rich, but perhaps it wasn't worth much.

Ursley Kempe

#10. Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. ... Nature does not act by purposes.

Erwin Schrodinger

#11. Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

James Cash Penney

#12. Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

H. Rider Haggard

#13. [ ... ] The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

Umberto Eco

#14. Dieter had a theory that was pure Faust. Thought alone was valueless. You must act for thought to become effective. He used to say that the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between the mind and the body: an order does not exist if it is not obeyed.

John Le Carre

#15. Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

G. M. Trevelyan

#16. Let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Saving these animals was what she did, it was an anathema to try to understand someone who'd take their lives - for something as inert and valueless as money. She

Toni Anderson

#18. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Frederick Buechner

#19. Love is a force ... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#20. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

George S. Patton

#21. But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Gerald Kersh

#22. Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

John Kenneth Galbraith

#23. I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.

Hermann Hesse

#24. Oh! let me love forever.
Let me die in love.
Life is valueless dust
if love touched you never.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Good parenting, from my perspective, is like building a three-foot retaining wall against a four-foot wave. The kids have to make up that extra foot. That wave wants to drag them into an undertow where sound judgment is suspended, where the valueless, uncaring, and ultimately nihilistic cool reigns.

Greg Gutfeld

#27. The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.

David Morrell

#28. These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.

Mike Bond

#29. Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

Thom Gunn

#31. Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

Karl Kraus