Best 59 quotes in «unnecessary quotes» category

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

You are quite unnecessary, young man!

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Concerns over what others may think are an unnecessary burden.

Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!

It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.