“ Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a carelessly tossed match or cigarette. After all, forests can be replanted. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils. ”
- Ada Louise Huxtable- Copy
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“ Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
- 533
“ Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin. ”
- George Wither- Copy
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“ The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. ”
- Don Miguel Ruiz- Copy
- 206
“ When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset. ”
- Salma Hayek- Copy
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“ This measure is a common-sense measure. It will ensure that people have a right to sue when harmed, and at the same time the bill will put an end to suits that leave consumers with pennies and small businesses with needless legal bills. ”
- Christopher Dodd- Copy
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“ I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. ”
- William Barclay- Copy
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“ The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution — they knew no more of the matter than he. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage. ”
- Elie Metchnikoff- Copy
- 68
“ He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover… ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 38
“ X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name — Xristos… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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