Need an original paper?
Buy Essay Now
Research Database of Quotes
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Keywords
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
fruitless
«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.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coercion, fruitless, policing, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards, trip
«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»
«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?»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| Keywords:
account, after, after all, all right, a lot, Did, energy, fruitless, lot, remember, right to work, take account, take into account, turn, turn out, waste, waste of energy, work out, worrying, year
«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.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
association, bestowed, be well, bind, bring forward, diligent, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, fruitless, in view, sciences, ties, Ties That Bind, treatment
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
admit, fruitful, fruitless, interesting, occasionally, quarrel