Needless Quotes

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The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself,… — Jane Austen
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets… — H.G. Wells
...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that… — Margaret Atwood
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in… — Virginia Woolf
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to… — Sam Harris
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.… — George Orwell
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,… — Anne Bronte
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I donâ€™t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the… — Cassandra Clare
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could… — Chris Bohjalian
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is… — Wyndham Lewis
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. — Daniel Kahikina Akaka
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say,… — Nathaniel Philbrick
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars,… — Noreena Hertz
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder… — David Novak
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it… — Elliott Abrams
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets. — Harry Houdini
I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were… — George Jones
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to… — Goldwin Smith
Omit needless words. — William Strunk, Jr.

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