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«Nonvoting is a fruitless temper tantrum.»
Author: Bruce Wright | Keywords: fruitless, tantrum, tantrums
«The most unproductive, empty, fruitless fellow in the world is the man with a barren heart»
«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.»
«Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but has no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not»
Author: The Dhammapada | Keywords: fruitless, perfume
«Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?»
«If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fruitless
«The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less»
«It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.»