Needlessly Quotes
49 quotes by 46 authors
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The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
— J C Ryle
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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
— C.S. Lewis
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Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most…
— Robert Alan Aurthur
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It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order…
— Frederick Lenz
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Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard…
— Clive James
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A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible,…
— Charles Edison
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Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men,…
— Isaac Barrow
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Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is…
— Thomas Frank
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Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for…
— Claire Danes
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Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the…
— Young-Ha Kim
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My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
— Michael Jackson
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing…
— Obert Skye
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This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must…
— John Connolly
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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
— Boris Pasternak
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‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we…
— F. Sionil José
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