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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. -- Abe Fortas
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews. -- David Novak
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. -- Elliott Abrams
I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long. -- Penn Badgley
I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise. -- Tom Felton
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan. -- Ernie Harwell
Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's. -- Jamie McMurray
Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you. -- Ry Cooder
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. -- Voltaire
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them. -- John C. Maxwell
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. -- Anne Lamott
Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth. -- Terry Teachout
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son. -- Dave Barry
I hauled myself over as if I were mounting a horse. Which I'd never actually done before.Needless to say, it was hardly a graceful affair. -- Alyxandra Harvey
Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she's the queen of the web. -- Brent Spiner
Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents. -- Michael Krondl
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line. -- William S. Burroughs
Needless fear and panic over disease and 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
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces. -- Jon Stewart
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free. -- Terry Pratchett
I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet. -- Dave Barry
There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. -- Thom Yorke
I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process. -- John Michael Montgomery
Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings. -- Henry Makow
I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full. -- George Jones
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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end... -- Barbara Brown Taylor
As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said prescribes, that's another question. Needless to say, I agree with him that they should, and that they commonly do not. -- Noam Chomsky
Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts. -- Michael Jackson
Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a "reproductive health procedure, . . ." "Illegitimacy" gives way to the wholly sanitized words "non-marital birth" or "alternative parenting." -- Neal A. Maxwell
I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to others. One guy I was with actually yelled, 'Get out of my face!' at a homeless man. Needless to say, there was no second date. -- Sarah Wynter
Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics. -- Leona Lewis
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. -- Benjamin Franklin
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. -- Deepak Chopra
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets. -- Harry Houdini
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest. -- Tom Felton
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children. -- Noreena Hertz
I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say. -- Josh Turner
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art. -- Virginia Postrel
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
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing! -- William Morris Hunt
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans. -- Diana DeGette
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it. -- Alice Waters
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
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? -- Ingrid Newkirk
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. -- Adam Hochschild
You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty. -- Gloria Naylor
Most collisions out on the fields are needless. -- Ty Cobb
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. -- William Kristol
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. -- William Kristol
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. -- Winston Churchill
Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty. -- Ken Kesey
The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective. -- J. I. Packer
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. -- Henry David Thoreau
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. -- John Owen
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions. -- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong. -- Jill Lepore
Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications. -- Donald A. Norman
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars. -- Ron Paul
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. -- Confucius
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. -- Edwin Way Teale
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. -- Seth Godin
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. -- Alexander Pope
Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do. -- Gore Vidal
We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind. -- Chris Matakas
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. -- Peter Dale Scott
Maria Canals-Barrera is Cuban and from Miami and I'm part Cuban and from Miami, so needless to say she became a quick friend. -- Bella Thorne
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. -- Mark Twain
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail. -- John Milton
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain. -- Ted Corbitt
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. -- Harriet Martineau
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. -- H. G. Wells
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought. -- Arthur Desmond
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am, of course, delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted. -- Terry Pratchett
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -- Calvin Coolidge
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such... -- Sigmund Freud
Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light. -- Jason F. Wright
He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
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. -- Calvin Miller
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. -- Criss Jami
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)." -- Kingsley Amis
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. -- William Cowper
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves. -- Seth
[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system. -- Gene Kim
Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee. -- Carolyn Jones
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness. -- Catharine Beecher
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later. -- Alexander Pope
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
X, n. 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. -- Ambrose Bierce
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. -- Alexander Pope
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness. -- Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk. -- Michael Specter
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. -- Ban Ki-moon
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell. -- James Young
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares. -- Jane Austen

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