There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green Copy Share Image
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think? — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary. — Jack White Copy Share Image
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all… — Laura Bohannan Copy Share Image
“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not… — Jason Akermanis Copy Share Image
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our… — William Law Copy Share Image
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The real man of intelligence will not cling to any ideology - for what? He will not carry a load of readymade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“That's tragic, also unfortunate, and often illegal. More importantly, it's also unnecessary.” — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what… — Niki Lauda Copy Share Image
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession. — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
FRIENDSHIP is unnecessary like Philosophy, like art, it has NO SURVIVAL VALUE rather than one of those things THAT GIVE VALUE TO… — ALYSSA Copy Share Image
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money… — Diana Vreeland 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
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine… — Sean Pertwee Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image