All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you.… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day,… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New… — Andy Behrman 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
You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
I have fought against excessive spending my entire career. And I got plans to reduce and eliminate unnecessary and wasteful spending and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I… — Lady Sovereign Copy Share Image
To sign up to take credit cards 21 years ago, it was the same amount of paperwork as getting a commercial mortgage.… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life -… — Frederick Lenz 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
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress.… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When… — John Schneider Copy Share Image
I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality.… — T. R. Knight Copy Share Image
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
