I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
After 'Humshakals,' the Sajid Khan bashing which followed, that was a little unnecessary. Genuinely. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary. — David Eller Copy Share Image
From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and… — Vera Wang 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 don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides Copy Share Image