Nonessential Quotes

#1. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

Michael Robotham

#2. Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

Walter Bender

#3. PEACEFULNESS: Do not allow life's challenges to disturb your tranquility. Life is far too precious to be wasted on nonessential issues.

Judy Smith

#4. Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

Duane Elmer

#5. Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient ... Ignore the inconsequential.

Grenville Kleiser

#6. You're candy to her. Something sweet, but nonessential.

Heather McVea

#7. I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#9. only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren't so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself - because this moment is about to be over.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style

Cindy Ann Peterson

#11. The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

#12. I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#13. The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

Adolf Hitler

#14. Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

Emo Philips

#15. to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

Philip K. Dick

#17. I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

Tayari Jones

#18. William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli

#19. Those who fail to distinguish the nonessential from the essential and the essential from the nonessential will, in feeding all wrong thoughts, fail to attain the essential.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Jeff Bezos

#21. Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.

Dean Cavanagh

#22. In essential things, unity. In nonessential things, freedom. In all things, love.

Mark Batterson

#23. Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

Will Rogers

#24. He was polite, respectful, not daring even to hold Mi-ran's hand until they'd been dating for three years.

Barbara Demick

#25. I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.

Thomas S. Monson

#26. Time ground to a halt and the trees whispered in the language of God and nature about steadfastness and resilience - gently saying that one could be constantly stirred yet not moved, bent but not broken, that a thing well grounded and deeply rooted could ever stand.

Charles M. Blow

#27. Where one does not do planning, it is all pure 'discharge'. 'Charge' occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Only for you, fan-girl." He tossed her towel. "And I like when you blush, so go ahead. Mop my sweat, you kinky beast."
-Michael Flynn, Willing Victim

Cara McKenna

#29. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,

R Shaw

#30. That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

Susan Jacoby

#31. The infinitely strong made weak by my mess.

Maggi Myers