Unavailing Quotes

#1. He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call 'The Great Health' - rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette's.

Oliver Sacks

#2. The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Ernest Renan

#3. Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

Paulo Coelho

#4. She clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.

Mark Twain

#5. When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. Think of something new you've actually learned in the past week; if you can't think of anything, get comfortable where you're at because you're not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. What did you talk

John Grisham

#8. could put no weight on the wounded ankle at

Larry McMurtry

#9. To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

Herophilos

#10. The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.

Rose Bird

#11. Best they honor thee
Who honor in thee only what is best.

William Watson

#12. The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#13. Sometimes a girl needed more than Special K with Red Berries in the morning. This qualified as one of those mornings.

Stephanie Julian

#14. Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.

John Frederick Boyes

#15. It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Charles Dickens

#16. We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#17. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#18. I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

Terry Goodkind

#19. The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#20. I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

Owen Chase

#21. The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

M. Russell Ballard

#22. All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Thomas Carlyle

#23. Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Dryden

#24. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Scott Adams

#25. Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Shit, Violence, bullets in the brain Unavailing.
We're in too deep to pull out.
Waiting for an orgasm, Mr. Baldwin?
Yes, waiting for an orgasm that's all.

Allen Ginsberg