Futile Quotes

You're talking different engineering for a raised bridge ... you're also projecting construction costs into the future, which has historically proven to be futile. - Mark Lambert

Your struggle is futile. - Doctor Who

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. - Mignon McLaughlin

Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. - Henry Ford

Without the presence of separatists on the round-table conference on Kashmir called by the Prime Minister, the entire exercise has turned futile. - Arun Jaitley

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. - Abu Bakr

Why should rate deregulation be an exercise in self-defense for pay phone consumers and a futile one at that? ... Government oversight must be maintained to ensure that pay phone owners and carriers do not abuse customers through high rates and by failing to disclose price information required by law. - Janee Briesemeister

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. - Stanley Crouch

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. - Alexis De Tocqueville

What is important is that we don't make a futile attempt to prevent people from crossing borders... The moving of people will continue. - Kofi Annan