Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment. — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary. — Sun Tzu 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
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it. — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our… — Anne Katherine Copy Share Image
Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition,… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure. — Chris Collins Copy Share Image
I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of… — Amber Rose Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job,… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary,… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. You could take the money you're spending on those… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image