Quotes About Needless

In Faro's opinion, their acquisition could not be compared with what was truly beyond price in his estimation, one man's life or needless death.

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

All of which is a digression, but it is common sense and perhaps may one day save you from needless terror or from needless cruelty to an innocent animal.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

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.

As with many episodes from this war, it is hard for us to see the attack on September 26, 1915, as anything other than a blatant, needless massacre initiated by generals with a near-criminal disregard for the conditions their men faced.

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Too often, the risk of careless or needless medical intervention is greater than the dangers of the illness itself.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and needless complicities such as those.

This story took no more than perhaps ten minutes to tell, and when it was over - the senseless, needless destruction of twenty-seven years in less than twenty-four hours - one thought foolishly: everyone, everyone should have his day in court.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

His condition shocked her, needless to say, but she had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon, and within an hour she'd taken it in her stride.

Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.