Top 100 Unnecessarily Quotes
#1. The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.
Kimberly Giles
#2. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#4. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
Raymond Loewy
#6. I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument.
Stefan Zweig
#7. She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#8. Only for Metias do I wear this unnecessarily exquisite gown, to show without words how much I love him.
Marie Lu
#9. One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
Sarada Devi
#11. I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money ... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
Marco Arment
#12. Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain ... pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.
Marcia Angell
#13. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.
Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.
Idries Shah
#14. In your life never become an agent of Negativity; Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits ... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage ... Then why act negative ?
Dinesh Kumar
#15. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.
J. Budziszewski
#16. It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
Tadashi Shoji
#17. In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#18. I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
Henry Thomas
#19. When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.
Robert Powell
#20. Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Camille Paglia
#21. We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.
Dean Koontz
#22. Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan
#23. Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.
Judith Martin
#24. Abstain from all thinking about other people's faults, unless your duties as a teacher or parent make it necessary to think about them. Whenever the thoughts come unnecessarily into one's mind, why not simply shove them away? And think of one's own faults instead? For
C.S. Lewis
#25. Every moment of the day - indeed, every moment throughout one's life - offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.
Sam Harris
#26. Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The
Timothy Zahn
#27. It's not that Seaborg disliked Harvey, but after a couple of combat drops with the 2nd Platoon one got the sense that if you didn't like things to explode unnecessarily around you, you would want to stay well clear of Daniel Harvey.
John Scalzi
#28. After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything more than survive and continue its cycle of errors.
Octavia E. Butler
#29. Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.
Dikembe Mutombo
#30. I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.
Nelson Mandela
#31. Deep to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.
Alex Payne
#32. There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)
William Of Ockham
#34. An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis De Bernieres
#35. I had unnecessarily described what had long been simmering in my heart,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.
George K. Simon
#37. Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
Peter Bichsel
#38. As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me ... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.
Carl Jung
#39. We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism ...
Wayne Thiebaud
#40. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
Wolfgang Schauble
#41. Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.
Franklin Foer
#42. I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
Katherine Jenkins
#43. If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world.
Bentley Little
#44. Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.
Brian L. Weiss
#45. So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Peter Agre
#46. I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
Jon Ronson
#47. These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.
George Q. Cannon
#48. People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.
David Lagercrantz
#49. In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova
#50. I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.
Esme Raji Codell
#51. She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey.
Gillian Flynn
#52. There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#53. I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
John Sculley
#54. Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. Henry
#55. Why, when a man has friends, they are not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water unnecessarily!
Alexandre Dumas
#56. If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.
George Soros
#57. I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way ... You must do exactly what is right, and let those who have done wrong bear the consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#58. In the process we have unnecessarily (and unbiblically) drawn a line of distinction, assigning the obligations of Christianity to a few while keeping the privileges of Christianity for us all.
David Platt
#59. It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview.
George W. Bush
#60. I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.
Brie Larson
#61. The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.
Gina McCarthy
#62. Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
Christopher Isherwood
#63. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
#65. We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
Michael O'Leary
#66. For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
Yanis Varoufakis
#67. When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.
Mike Schmoker
#68. Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
Franz Kafka
#69. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.
Magda Gerber
#70. Why this book? In today's globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of the past, unnecessarily.
Thomas Jerome Baker
#71. Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve. - A stitch in time saves nine.
Donella H. Meadows
#72. The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.
Julian Baggini
#73. I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
Joel Kinnaman
#74. Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful
just stupid.)
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. Politics was often not only unnecessary, but sometimes also unnecessarily complicated.
Jonas Jonasson
#76. It's unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.
Thomas M. Kostigen
#78. I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.
C.S. Lewis
#79. Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
Lee Iacocca
#80. Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
Muhammad Yunus
#81. I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.
Steve Coogan
#82. Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
Zaha Hadid
#83. LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.
Anton Chekhov
#84. The disease that has, on several occasions, nearly killed me does kill tens of thousands of people every year: most are young, most die unnecessarily, and many are among the most imaginative and gifted that we as a society have.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#85. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
Harry Vardon
#86. Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
Robin McKinley
#87. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
#88. There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown
#89. We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#90. Sometimes we do that to ourselves
we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.
Julia Serano
#91. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
John Conyers
#93. No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.
Paul Ehrenfest
#94. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,
what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.
Emmuska Orczy
#96. The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.
Frederick Lenz
#97. What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.
Maria Montessori
#98. Don't speak thoughtlessly.
Don't worry unnecessarily.
Don't work half-heartedly.
Don't spend recklessly.
Don't give begrudgingly.
Don't act self-centeredly.
Don't live short-sightedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.
Saint Basil
#100. Friendly had never liked to rock boats unnecessarily. That's how people end up drowned.
George R R Martin
