Being Called Useless Quotes

I, Gavin MacKenzie, sexy
cowboy man of Baker City, Oregon …
being of sound mind and hot body … do
hereby declare that I love you, Andie
Marks, lawyer extraordinaire, and want
to be married to you until I'm so old, I
either die or my pecker falls off.I will have sex
with you whenever you want, and I will
always give you the option to be on top
if that's what will make you happy.
Blowjobs will always be optional but
appreciated.I will change diapers when called
for, both for our children and for you
when you're old and decrepit. I will
never spit in public or burp too loudly or
say mean things about your friends.I promise never to raise my hand
against you in anger or tell you that
you're useless or threaten to hurt people
who you love. Ten-four, over and out,
happily ever after. Those are my vows. ~ Elle Casey

Father will bury us with both hands. He boasts of me to his so-called friends, telling them I'm the next queen of this kingdom. I don't think he's ever paid so much attention to me before, and even now, it is minuscule, not for my own benefit. He pretends to love me now because of another, because of Tibe. Only when someone else sees worth in me does he condescend to do the same.

Because of her father, she dreamed of a Queenstrial she did not win, of being cast aside and returned to the old estate. Once there, she was made to sleep in the family tomb, beside the still, bare body of her uncle. When the corpse twitched, hands reaching for her throat, she would wake, drenched in sweat, unable to sleep for the rest of the night.

Julian and Sara think me weak, fragile, a porcelain doll who will shatter if touched, she wrote.
Worst of all, I'm beginning to believe them. Am I really so frail? So useless? Surely I can be of some help somehow, if Julian would only ask? Are Jessamine's lessons the best I can do? What am I becoming in this place? I doubt I even remember how to replace a lightbulb. I am not someone I recognize. Is this what growing up means?

Because of Julian, she dreamed of being in a beautiful room. But every door was locked, every window shut, with nothing and no one to keep her company. Not even books. Nothing to upset her. And always, the room would become a birdcage with gilded bars. It would shrink and shrink until it cut her ~ Victoria Aveyard

The commandment, 'Love thy neighbour as thyself', is the strongest defence against human aggressiveness and an excellent example of the unpsychological [expectations] of the cultural super-ego. The commandment is impossible to fulfil; such an enormous inflation of love can only lower its value, not get rid of the difficulty. Civilization pays no attention to all this; it merely admonishes us that the harder it is to obey the precept the more meritorious it is to do so. But anyone who follows such a precept in present-day civilization only puts himself at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the person who disregards it. What a potent obstacle to civilization aggressiveness must be, if the defence against it can cause as much unhappiness as aggressiveness itself! 'Natural' ethics, as it is called, has nothing to offer here except the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think oneself better than others. At this point the ethics based on religion introduces its promises of a better after-life. But so long as virtue is not rewarded here on earth, ethics will, I fancy, preach in vain. I too think it quite certain that a real change in the relations of human beings to possessions would be of more help in this direction than any ethical commands; but the recognition of this fact among socialists has been obscured and made useless for practical purposes by a fresh idealistic misconception of human nature. ~ Sigmund Freud

The cultural Left has contributed to the formation of this politically useless unconscious not only by adopting "power" as the name of an invisible, ubiquitous, and malevolent presence, but by adopting ideals which nobody is yet able to imagine being actualized.

Among these ideals are participatory democracy and the end of capitalism. Power will pass to the people, the Sixties Left believed only when decisions are made by all those who may be affected by the results. This means, for example, that economic decisions will be made by stakeholders rather than by shareholders, and that entrepreneurship and markets will cease to play their present role. When they do, capitalism as we know it will have ended, and something new will have taken its place.

[…] Sixties leftists skipped lightly over all the questions which had been raised by the experience of non market economies in the so-called socialist countries. They seemed to be suggesting that once we were rid of both bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, "the people" would know how to handle competition from steel mills or textile factories in the developing world, price hikes on imported oil, and so on. But they never told us how "the people" would learn how to do this.

The cultural Left still skips over such questions. Doing so is a consequence of its preference for talking about "the system" rather than about specific social practices and specific changes in those practices. The rhetoric of this Le ~ Richard M. Rorty

But it was quickly recognized in the 1920s that what they called "on-job control" could be extended to "off-job control." That is, controlling every other aspect of life in the same way. So why should people not be robots in their entire life? And to be a robot means to focus your attention on what were called the superficial things of life. Like fashionable consumption, not on care for one another, not on working together to create a decent environment, not on what the world will be like for your children. To turn you into a passive consumer, a person who pushes buttons every couple years and is taught that that is democracy. Follow orders, don't think. Identify your own value as a human being in the amount of useless consumption that you can carry out. That's "off-job control." It runs through all the institutions and it's a huge industry. And, yes, to overcome off-job control you have to make people realize that your value as a human being is not how deeply you can go in debt and how many credit cards you can max out to get commodities you want. That is not your value as a human being. ~ Noam Chomsky

Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type. ~ Christopher Hitchens

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the initial gesture of refusal is, so to speak, a primordial instinct in every female, and even if she rejects the most ardent passion she cannot be called inhuman. But how disastrous it is when fate upsets the balance, when a woman so far overcomes her natural modesty as to disclose her passion to a man, when, without the certainty of its being reciprocated, she offers her love, and he, the wooed, remains cold and on the defensive! An insoluble tangle this, always; for not to return a woman's love is to shatter her pride, to violate her modesty. The man who rejects a woman's advances is bound to wound her in her noblest feelings. In vain, then, all the tenderness with which he extricates himself, useless all his polite, evasive phrases, insulting all his offers of mere friendship, once she has revealed her weakness! His resistance inevitably becomes cruelty, and in rejecting a woman's love he takes a load of guild upon his conscience, guiltless though he may be. Abominable fetters that can never be cast off! ~ Stefan Zweig

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities. ~ Sakyong Mipham

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best. ~ Joan Collins

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform. ~ Frederick Lenz

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. ~ Sylvia Plath

The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming. ~ Osho

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter. ~ Caroline Knapp

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Sometimes i feel completely useless then i remember i breathe out carbon dioxide for plants so i guess i'm not that useless after all. ~ Chrisper Malamsha

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place. ~ Tite Kubo

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. ~ Lilith Saintcrow

Being called the nice girl, is way better than being called a bitch. ~ Lauren Conrad

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being. ~ Peter Mullan

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ~ Sophia Bush

I called Miss Daphne, but she says she doesn't want 'er tea. She's got 'er nose stuck in a book. Useless, I think it's called, by some woman named Joyce. ~ Alan Bradley

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? ~ Simone Elkeles

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless! ~ J.C. Ryle

Being called Mr. with respect is better than being called as Dr. with bitterness. ~ Sarvesh Jain

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. ~ Seneca The Younger

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

Emperors are vain and useless things. ~ Scott Westerfeld

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction
only enough to make you useless. ~ Daniel Nayeri

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat. ~ Eric Gamalinda

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. ~ Ivan Panin

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. ~ Scott Westerfeld

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s. ~ Malcolm Wilson

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless. ~ Henry Cavill

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ~ Bertrand Russell

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless. ~ David Mamet

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane. ~ Neko Case

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. ~ Eugene Ionesco

I'm not exactly a useless cream puff. ~ Jim Butcher

The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless. ~ Umberto Eco

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. ~ Confucius

It was madness to leave without your useless shit. You came in with it, you left with it
that was how it worked. What would you use to clutter a new office with if not your useless shit? We could remember Old Brizz with this box of useless shit, shifting the box from arm to arm as he talked with the building guy. Of course, Old Brizz never had an office again. His useless shit really was useless. He had cause to leave his useless shit behind. But his was a rare case. All things considered, it was better to take your useless shit with you. ~ Joshua Ferris

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. ~ Darryl F. Zanuck

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion. ~ Candace Bushnell

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes. ~ Gustave Flaubert

I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful. ~ Ken Wahl

We do and say useless and pointless stuff and words, if we think little deeper why we go and masturbate?? (No,... No don't change the page... don't close it or whatever do.... look me right in the face and listen it's not a shit... it's how the matrix is build)... well... let's start from here... we masturbate and after all in the other day or after few days we will do it again..., we eat food and after all we eat again and again until we die... we say useless words and after all who in the hell to know why, we do that???

But after all from this useless words comes the one useful story if the useless words didn't exist... it won't also exist the advange called itself "story". ~ Deyth Banger

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts. ~ Rachel Johnson

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. ~ Russell Lynes

Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge. ~ Rosemary Daniell

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;They exist and that is all. ~ Thiruvalluvar

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~ Margot Asquith

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. ~ Jack Vance

Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for
what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (
Sally Jay Gorce) ~ Elaine Dundy

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. ~ Philip Levine

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking. ~ Jim Morrison

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ~ Oscar Wilde

In the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer. ~ Delia Ephron

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. ~ Molly Harper

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless ... ~ Anthony Burgess

Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions - beautiful writing rarely is. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather ~ Erin Hunter

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal. ~ Austin O'Malley

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic. ~ Sun Myung Moon

Cats are great. They don't talk about useless things. Or do them. Nothing is cuter. They are something that don't exist in my world. They have pets over there as well ... but ... it doesn't quite compare. ~ Yana Toboso

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. ~ Milton Friedman

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry. ~ Samuel Johnson

Most everything government does is worse than useless. ~ James Cook

I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless. ~ Gennifer Albin

Useless as a pulled tooth. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain. ~ John Calvin

The bullets are useless! And it's dilating! ~ Whit Bissell

I think without writing I would feel completely useless. ~ Sam Shepard

And here I always thought morality was useless ~ Jeff Lindsay

This summer I have discovered something totally useless. ~ Peter Higgs

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken ... a useless thing. Then make an offer. ~ Billie Letts

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ~ Albert J. Nock

It went on. Each lie I told required another to thicken the paste over the previous. It was useless, like when I learned to crochet and made a long string of loops. Being useless builds character, Miss Paulsen had said. Perhaps she was home now, drinking a weak Earl Grey from last night's tea bag, massaging her taffied scalp. ~ Ruta Sepetys

How many useless things one owns just because one has closets to put them in! ~ Marty Rubin

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. ~ Friedrich Engels

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals. ~ Wesley L. Duewel

Antioxidants are completely useless. ~ Michael Specter

Knowledge without understanding is useless. ~ Thucydides

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. ~ Klemens Von Metternich

I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful. ~ Alistair Begg

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. ~ Tina Brown

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. ~ Ken Danby

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. ~ Mark Twain

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. ~ Cesare Pavese

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. ~ Walter Lippmann

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows ~ Linus Torvalds

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless. ~ Ang Lee

To a poet nothing can be useless. ~ Samuel Johnson

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless. ~ Robin Sharma

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts,
that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful. ~ Bertrand Russell

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless ... nobody wants to be in it. ~ Roger Scruton