Gratuitously Quotes

#1. As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

#2. To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.

William Strunk Jr.

#3. Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

Eleanor Clift

#4. I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Steven Hatfill

#5. Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

Rachel Bloom

#6. The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Peggy Noonan

#7. Every single day an estimated eighteen million men gratuitously waste the future of our country, by needlessly ejaculating one hundred million citizens of our country, which had they been born, would have made us the strongest country on the planet.

Scott Andrews

#8. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The

Henry David Thoreau

#9. In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

Godfrey Reggio

#10. If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.

R.C. Sproul

#11. If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing.

Steven Bauer

#12. We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.

PZ Myers

#13. Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

Norm MacDonald

#14. There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

John Calvin

#15. A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Steven Pinker

#16. I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!

Douglas Adams

#17. The history of American wars is littered with propaganda, falsehoods, a compliant media, the manipulation of patriotic sentiment - everything we've seen recently, we've seen before. Time and again.

Murray Polner

#18. I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.

Meir Kahane

#19. Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

Patricia Briggs

#20. There's a reason people say everything happens for a reason, but don't think about that reason too much, because then you'll turn into the unhappy "skeptical one" of the group.

Jay Clark

#21. Believe you can and you can. Believe you will and you will. See yourself achieving, and you will achieve.

Gardner Hunting

#22. Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.

Angela Kinsey

#24. Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

Sonam Kapoor