Unnecessary Quotations

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

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

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

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

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

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

People comment on how you look, it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

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

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

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 things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong. You should not talk about Indian people," and the Indian people are over in the audience like, "I thought that joke was hilarious." That is so weird. Then why are you getting mad? You're burning unnecessary calories. You're getting made for the sake of getting mad. I don't understand it.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism...

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

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

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.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

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

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.

You are quite unnecessary, young man!

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

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

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.

Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

When you access and evaluate your goals, you will uncluttered your life of the unnecessary.

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.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

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.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

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.

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.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

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

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

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

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

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.

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.

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.