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.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.
I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.
I pledge that the personal safety of Israeli citizens will not be futile.
Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.
