Needless Quotes
121 quotes by 114 authors
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Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your…
— Zelig Pliskin
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame,…
— William Cowper
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Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
— Benjamin Franklin
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What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort…
— Tom Felton
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When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went…
— Salma Hayek
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Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.
— Leona Lewis
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second…
— Danica McKellar
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The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
— Edwin Way Teale
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Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he…
— Meg Cabot
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Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated…
— Huston Smith
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry…
— Thomas Pynchon
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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company…
— Thomas Paine
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Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw…
— Jason F. Wright
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Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is…
— Epictetus
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Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland,…
— Terry Pratchett
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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her…
— Bill Cosby
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