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Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
Kelsey Grammer

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
Bruce Nauman

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
Jef I. Richards

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
Lynn Abbey

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Jacques Ellul

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
Francis Maude

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.
William Faulkner

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
Ludwig Quidde

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg

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

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
William J. Brennan

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