Unnecessary Quotes

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

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

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

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

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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

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 truly matter most.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

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

What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

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.

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

No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

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

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

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

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

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

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.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

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.

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.

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 our own species.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

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

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

I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

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

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers 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.