Top 100 Need Not Quotes
#3. I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#4. One need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.
Nirmala Srivastava
#5. But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so.
Mary Balogh
#6. The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#8. We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.
Calvin Coolidge
#9. In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. We are the makers of our own state and ... individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Faith does not cease being active as it undertakes the process of rigorous thinking. One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver
Thomas C. Oden
#12. Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#13. Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words "do not be afraid" or "fear thee not" (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!
Pedro Okoro
#14. Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.
Marlon James
#15. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If
Timothy Zahn
#16. It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
Anne Rice
#17. A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
Wally Lamb
#18. If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.
John F. Kennedy
#20. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.
Aprilynne Pike
#22. If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.
Jane Austen
#23. Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.
C.S. Friedman
#25. The Murder Burger is served right here.
You need not wait at the gate of Heaven for unleavened death.
You can be a goner on this very corner.
Mayonnaise, onions, dominance of flesh.
If you wish to eat it you must feed it.
Yall come back soon.
You bet.
Stan Rice
#26. One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
Henry James
#27. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
#28. In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#29. I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.
Theresa May
#31. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#32. Behavior speaks ... I need not listen to someone's apology; I'll watch for it. I've learned not to let someone's words blind me from their behavior.
Steve Maraboli
#33. In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Abraham Lincoln
#34. Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.
D.A. Botta
#36. You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
Charlotte Bronte
#37. The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
Potter Stewart
#38. To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
Mick Fleetwood
#39. Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.
Peggy Noonan
#40. If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)
Swami Satchidananda
#41. It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O'Brien
#42. The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the Dodgers having somewhat the better of it.
Roger Angell
#43. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
#44. That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
Arthur David Ritchie
#45. Watching you has taught me that a man need not be weak to have a faith, but is made strong by it.
Roseanna M. White
#46. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.
Azar Nafisi
#47. After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
Margaret Fuller
#48. The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do ...
Joe Abercrombie
#49. A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Mahmoud Darwish
#50. If ever I was meant to love, my heart would beat for you,"
Need not the Raven say to Crow beneath the winter's howl.
Excerpt from "The Raven and The Crow
Angela B. Chrysler
#51. All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#52. So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.
James Lileks
#53. Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
Anne Bonny
#54. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
#55. How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
Joseph Campbell
#56. If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom.
Murray Rothbard
#57. He that is rich need not live sparingly,
and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Benjamin Franklin
#58. It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Ina May Gaskin
#59. Most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I hear that word I get a rising in the gut as if I were about to puke. let them have the stage so long as I need not be in the audience.
Charles Bukowski
#60. That which doesn't boil need not be stirred;
That which isn't shared never occurred.
Theron Arnold
#61. A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
Andrew Bernstein
#63. We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.
Gary Chapman
#64. The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
Peter Drucker
#65. You need not strive to become your greater purpose.
Bryant McGill
#66. If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.
A.A. Allen
#67. What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
Janet Morris
#68. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R.D. Laing
#69. Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Oscar Wilde
#70. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. You need not be proud of me ... I'm only being active till you can be again
it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#72. AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer
#73. We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.
Jorge Ramos
#74. You need not to find somebody with matching wavelengths, the Universe is there to conspire that to happen.
Shreya Gupta
#75. The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.
James K. Morrow
#76. Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
John Lubbock
#77. The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all that with a share - an enormous share - of the sunlight and air.
Annie Dillard
#78. Too much mercy ... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie
#79. The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.
Muriel Rukeyser
#80. Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.
Rose Macaulay
#81. The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.
Purushothaman Kollam
#82. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
Noah Webster
#83. For the time being, it need only be said that the philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention in our lives of a single, calamitous event: the evolution of consciousness - parent of all horrors.
Thomas Ligotti
#84. The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#85. May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.
Tina Fey
#86. Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.
Timothy Garton Ash
#87. Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.
Martin O'Malley
#89. We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
William J. Clinton
#90. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
Julia Cameron
#91. What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
Frank Herbert
#92. Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
John Ruskin
#93. We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#94. Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;
Benjamin Franklin
#95. Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
Nelson Mandela
#96. Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.
George Eliot
#97. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#98. We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
Peggy Haymes
#99. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
#100. Christianity offers a different vision, the vision of a merciful and loving God, whose "silence" about our sins need not be interpreted as a sign of His nonexistence, but instead as an expression of His patience and readiness to forgive. But
Tomas Halik
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