Top 72 Needlessly Quotes
#1. The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious ... This administration simply doesn't get it.
Rob Portman
#2. It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
Rachel Held Evans
#3. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself..
Alan W. Watts
#5. Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.
Steve Breen
#6. Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
Jaeda DeWalt
#7. Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.
Andrew Shaffer
#8. I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
C.S. Lewis
#9. If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids
Jimmy Carr
#10. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.
Robert Reich
#11. If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
Isaac Barrow
#12. I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
William Cowper
#13. ...the best way to ensure survival is to not needlessly endanger yourself."
"Yeah, well, I don't want to just survive. I want to *live*.
T.L. Walker
#15. I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
Donald Barthelme
#16. Do not respond to these insults, they will not increase your abilities. You will tire yourself needlessly.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Much blood has been needlessly spilt in history, and the Christian witness has been needlessly clouded, simply because men have equated their opinions with the authority of the Bible itself by fallacious logic.
Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
#18. Let me give you a piece of advice, and please retain it. I'd hate to needlessly expel air for the benefit of having you nod absentmindedly.
Addison Moore
#19. Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,
Michael F. Jacobson
#20. Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Gunter Grass
#21. He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and ... he who does the best work at lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.
Henry R. Towne
#22. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.
Daniel Kahneman
#23. I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.
Susan Schneider
#24. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.
John Connolly
#25. Really? Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!" He hesitated, and then shrugged. "And you say bought and sold? All right. But not, I think, needlessly spent." The
Terry Pratchett
#27. I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways, Frodo, other paths that we might take.
I know what you would say. And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning in my heart.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Donald Rumsfeld
#29. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
Young-Ha Kim
#30. Don't think needlessly, think wisely, and your thoughts will emit positive vibes through out you, and the Universe.
Tania Gardana
#31. Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.
Elaine A. Cannon
#32. There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
Adam Duritz
#33. Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.
Sue Patton Thoele
#34. 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
#35. To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
Nathan Winograd
#37. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
Bob Hope
#38. Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.
Carolyn Hax
#39. So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.
John Green
#41. Like a lot of common sense, they may seem obvious but they are wrong. The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.
Ken Robinson
#42. The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
J.C. Ryle
#43. Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.
John Manning
#44. They got to him," Ewan said, needlessly. "Must have been a midnight snack," Tim said, smiling grimly. Ewan frowned. "Don't be so morbid.
Guido Baechler
#45. I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.
Andy Gray
#46. Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
Claire Danes
#47. If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.
Christopher Paolini
#48. One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'.
Dada Bhagwan
#49. A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Charles Edison
#50. I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Boris Pasternak
#51. Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
Gene Tunney
#52. Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
Emile M. Cioran
#53. Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
Thomas Frank
#54. To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
Julian Ruck
#55. Don't expect or demand from groups what they usually cannot give. Doing so will make you needlessly angry and reactionary. They must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-congratulation. This is their nature and purpose.
Richard Rohr
#56. It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.
Robert Breault
#57. Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera
F. Sionil Jose
#58. We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
Ralph Peters
#59. I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.
John Ruskin
#60. His head was mixed up, and fall semester was going to be needlessly rough if he didn't get a few things in order first. Nicola would have to speak up, Jacob would have to shut up, and he would have to man up.
Cristin Harber
#61. It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness
Frederick Lenz
#62. God is patient even when we are needlessly in a hurry. God is timely even when we needlessly procrastinate. Be more like God and less like men.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#63. If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.
Joseph M. Williams
#64. A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of authority is by no means indispensable to the conduct of affairs, and it is needlessly offensive to the susceptibility of the public.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#65. If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.
Jayne Bauling
#66. Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Michael Jackson
#67. Boss,' I said into my Airwave. 'It's getting needlessly metaphysical out here.
Ben Aaronovitch
#68. I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#69. For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
Richard Ford
#70. Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
Sherwood Boehlert
#71. Each sentence should have proper meaning, details should not be needlessly repeated, and every sentence should add to the entertainment value in one way or another.
A.J. Flowers
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