"Pointless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hours about dairying, interspersed with pointless anecdotes of the man who had lived there before us. I ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... the very inaccessibility of President Wilson. He does not waste time on non-essentials, on useless polite conversation or pointless discussion. This may add to his ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... Berrien, were an altogether higher and abler class of men than those with whom Mr. Adams had his frequent wrangles in the House. The weapons which he so successfully employed against the young "fire-eaters" would have proved pointless and valueless in a contest with any one of the eminent men who in that long period gave character to ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... the meaning of human life, he wondered? Were men and women created to suffer, to bear crosses which were not of their own making, to suffer injustices which seemed pointless?... ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge
... upon personal effect, upon our magnificence and our margins cannot be greatly less than forty-five thousand pounds. I walk about our house and gardens, I take one of the carriages or one of the automobiles and go to some large pointless gathering of hundreds and thousands and thousands of pounds, and we walk about and say empty little things, and the servants don't laugh at us, the butlers don't laugh at us, the people in the street tolerate us.... It has an effect of ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
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