Best Unnecessary Quotes
518 Unnecessary quotes by 424 unique authors
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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities.…
— Orison Swett Marden
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See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first…
— Rajneesh
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
— Richard Baxter
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Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
— William Shakespeare
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If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.
— David Eller
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I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small…
— Daryl Hannah
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Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that…
— David A. Bednar
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum…
— Thomas Huxley
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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for…
— Melody Beattie
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality,…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
— Edward Abbey
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a…
— Ed Markey
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All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of…
— Manmohan Singh
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of…
— Peter Singer
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
— Waldo Salt
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a…
— Ernest Gaines
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
— Carl Jung
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Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser
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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create…
— David Hurn
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Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
— Samuel Johnson
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Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep…
— Robyn Davidson
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