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Quotes About Unnecessary

needless to say is a harmless enough expression, but it often draws attention to the fact that you really didn't need to say it.
~ Bill Bryson
different. Often used unnecessarily. 'He plays milkmaid to more than 50 different species of poisonous snake' (Observer); 'The phenomenally successful Rubik Cube, which has 43,252,002,274,489,856,000 different permutations but only one solution' (Sunday Times); '[He] published at least five different books on grammar' (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Frequently, as in each of these examples, it can be deleted without loss.
~ Bill Bryson
I don't care about the word 'art' because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of 'art' today.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved.
~ Gemma Malley, The Declaration
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant, said Blouse. Right you are, sir! said the sergeant. Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall! He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: But not too hard!
~ Terry Pratchett
That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary.
~ Kate Moore
That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary. -- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
~ Kate Moore
extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements;
~ Herman Melville
Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.
~ Herman Melville
He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of never returning to the house alive. Floods and earthquakes and plagues of locusts were rather unnecessary.
~ George Alec Effinger
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.
~ Kato Kiyomasa
Mrs. Hale, still leaning against the door, had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to speak a piece. Lewis often wandered along and got things mixed up in a story. She hoped he would tell this straight and plain, and not say unnecessary things that would just make things harder for Minnie Foster.
~ Susan Glaspell
I'm going to carry you now," he told her, "so we can move even faster. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
~ Chris Hedges
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~ Carl Reiner
Wielu ludzi lubi ?nieg. Dla mnie jest zb?dnym zamra?aniem wody.
~ Carl Reiner
supernumerary
~ Carol Reardon
Ama aptall?k ettim, iyi vakit geçirtmek yerine onu kasvete boÄŸdum. Gerçekten de dünyan?n ÅŸark?c?lara ve dansç?lara kalmas? gerek! Gereksiz ac?lar, aylakça melankoli, boÅŸ piÅŸmanl?klar! -Barbarlar? Beklerken
~ J. M. Coetzee
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
~ Chris Hedges
You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.
~ Ann Landers
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
~ Carl Jung
superfluous
~ Victor Hugo