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Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction. -- Mason Cooley
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. -- Victor Hugo
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. -- Jean Monnet
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. -- Jack Lynch
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -- Samuel Johnson
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him. -- James McAvoy
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. -- John Dewey
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. -- Thomas Steinbeck
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. -- John Steinbeck
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.' -- Naomi Wolf
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life. -- LZ Granderson
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption. -- Conrad Black
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I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.' -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Revenge is fruitless. -- Janet Morris
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless. -- Thomas Watson
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. -- Homer
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. -- Matthew Henry
Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless. -- Charlie Munger
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. -- Saint Augustine
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou
[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. -- Edward Gibbon
A fruitless year, take a fearless heartOne that blooms late will flourish in the dark -- Criss Jami
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. -- Napoleon Hill
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. -- Eugene Ionesco
The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits. -- Albert Einstein
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail. -- Kabir
Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless. -- Sergey Akhromeyev
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not. -- Peace Pilgrim
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless. -- Jin Sun Mi
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me. -- John Bunyan
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not. -- Gautama Buddha
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it. -- Zeeshan Ahmed
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. -- Sarah Silverman
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. -- Samuel Johnson
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks. -- George Meredith
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them. -- Gautama Buddha
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. -- Phillips Brooks
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all. -- Henry Twells
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. -- Roger Zelazny
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker. -- Gautama Buddha
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? -- Wei Wu Wei
KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach. -- Bruce Friedrich
Iâ??ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all thatâ??s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust. -- Alexander Pushkin
I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless... -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved. -- Ernest Van den Haag
It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. -- Terry Eagleton
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds. -- Hasan of Basra

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