While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to… — RZA Copy Share Image
When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly… — Jennifer Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me. — Tim Rutili Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days… — Willem Buiter Copy Share Image
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful,… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's true that over-apologizing interrupts the flow of conversation and irritates the person who has to stop and offer reassurance, like, "No,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
