#worthless

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#declare #evolution #former #happened #human

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#combination #cover #good #government #ink

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#superficiality #supermodels #sweet-valley #worthless #change

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #cannot #degree #exist #least

Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#be the first #conservative #conservative movement #conservatives #counsel

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #respect #surprising #things #world

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#hear #make #men #need #their

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#because #cheapest #economic #factor #goods

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. ↗