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.
Anthony Minghella

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.
Jose Marti

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Arianna Huffington

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.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Stanley Crouch

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr