Unnecessary Quotes

518 quotes by 441 authors

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an… — Mary Astell
And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many… — Erykah Badu
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
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 that unnecessary regulations… — Bob Beauprez
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when… — Edward de Bono
People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by… — David Cameron
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was… — Jimmy Carter
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you… — Robert A. Heinlein
Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to… — John Hospers
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where… — Kato Kiyomasa
Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus,… — Swami Vivekananda
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary. — Winston Churchill
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize… — Rajneesh
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. — Richard Baxter
We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is… — Sharon Salzberg
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law… — Robert Breault

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