Needless Quotes

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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of… — Kenny Smith
Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain. — Ted Corbitt
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a… — Alexander Pope
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit… — Jon Stewart
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's… — Ambrose Bierce
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as… — Adam Hochschild
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation… — Harriet Martineau
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless… — Ingrid Newkirk
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail. — John Milton
When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there… — Maureen Howard
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and… — Frederick Lenz
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a… — James Young
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually… — Criss Jami
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son. — Dave Barry
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one… — William Morris Hunt
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the… — Diana DeGette
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. — Mark Twain
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — William Kristol
Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more… — Gene Kim

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