Quotes and Sayings About Unnecessary
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
-- Aldous Huxley -
When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
-- Anne Katherine -
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
-- Art Spiegelman -
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.
-- Betty Friedan -
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves
-- Bruce Lee -
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
-- Charles II of England -
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
-- Chester W. Nimitz -
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
-- Chris Patten -
Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.
-- Cordelia Fine -
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
-- Derek Jeter -
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
-- Duke of Wellington -
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
-- Emile Durkheim -
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
-- Emile Durkheim -
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
-- Enya -
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
-- Ernest Bramah -
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
-- Evan Wright -
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
-- Florynce Kennedy -
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
-- Fred Allen -
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.
-- Fred Green -
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
-- Gail Sheehy
