Exercises In Futility Quotes & Sayings

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it. — George Carlin

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Iain M. Banks

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process. — Ginny Brown-Waite

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning. — Tracy Chapman

A household has to be tended if it is to flourish and grow. Housework is never 'done' in the same sense that gardening is never done or that God's providential involvement in the world is never done. Housework and gardening and God's providence itself are exercises not in futility but in faithfulness - faithfulness to the work itself, to the people whose needs that work serves, and to the God whose own faithfulness invites our faithful response. — Margaret Kim Peterson

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life. — Frank Langella