Unnecessary famous quotes
06-16-2025
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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 -
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
-- Gary W. Keller -
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
-- Helen Clark -
A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.
-- Helmut Krone -
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.
-- Horatio Dresser -
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
-- John Desmond Bernal -
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
-- John Galsworthy -
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
-- John Irving -
Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.
-- Jonas Jonasson -
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
-- Kage Baker -
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
-- Kate Mulgrew -
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
-- Laura Bohannan -
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
-- Maimonides -
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.
-- Mark Klett -
Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
-- Michael Scheuer -
The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.
-- Mike McGavick -
I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.
-- Nate Saint -
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
-- Peace Pilgrim -
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.
-- Peter Saville -
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
-- Peter Sellers -
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,
-- Philippe Starck -
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-- Randeep Hooda -
Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.
-- Randy Sanders -
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
-- Richard Baxter -
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
-- Robert Farrar Capon -
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
-- Robert Fripp -
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
-- Scott McClellan -
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
-- Steve Nash -
I’m going to carry you now,†he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.
-- Suzanne Brockmann -
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, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
-- Thomas Hobbes -
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.
-- Tommy Ramone -
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi -
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.
-- Walter J. Phillips -
I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.
-- Wayne Dyer -
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.
-- Widad Akrawi -
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
-- Wilfrid Sheed -
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt -
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
-- Willard Scott -
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.
-- Domenico Gnoli -
When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly who we are, and as such we reveal the potential we were born to express.
-- Jennifer Kavanagh -
There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered gestalt, usually. I've always felt a strong affinity towards Mondrian's work. I understand the importance of those subtle planar and linear modulations he made in the course of building up the incredible visual tension in his work.
-- Philip Taaffe -
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
-- Rachel Lambert Mellon -
I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me.
-- Tim Rutili -
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.
-- Mir-Hossein Mousavi -
Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.
-- Rodney Harrison -
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
-- Rose Wilder Lane -
I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.
-- Sasha Grey -
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.
-- Sharon Salzberg -
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.
-- Haskell Wexler -
My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.
-- Jamie Lynn Sigler -
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
-- William Shockley -
I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities.
-- Kenneth Arrow -
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
-- Mahathir Mohamad
