Top 832 Unnecessary Quotes & Sayings

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

You are quite unnecessary, young man!

Poverty is unnecessary.

Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

Science makes God unnecessary.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

Theology is unnecessary.

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.

Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Fear is unnecessary.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

I can't get into unnecessary fights and abuse others.

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

I have spent my entire career advocating for free-market economic policies, trying to convince the leaders of this country that unnecessary government interference in the market-place - and let's face it, most government is totally unnecessary - destroys liberty and inhibits prosperity.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.