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Without faith, life is futile.
Death, only, renders hope futile.
Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
I pledge that the personal safety of Israeli citizens will not be futile.
The moment I started watching my thoughts, I realized how futile fear is.
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Also, it is futile to hold on very tight to your man as this will just kill your love for each other.
Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.
A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.
I've made two finals, and I'm up against guys who have won over 30 grand slams between them. But it's been great for the sport. You have to figure it out. Wishing for something else is futile.
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.