Quotes about Futile
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
— Proverbs 1:17
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
— Leviticus 26:20
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
— Isaiah 19:15
Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!
— Horatius Bonar
To me, Herod symbolizes the terrible destruction that fearful people can leave in their wake if their fear is unacknowledged, if they have power but can only use it in furtive, pathetic, and futile attempts at self-preservation.
— Kathleen Norris
Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
— John Wooden
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
— Psalm 2:1
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
— Ravi Zacharias
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
— Job 15:3
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
— Samuel Johnson
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
— Job 11:20