Needless Quotes

“It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.”

“We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.”

“You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.”

“Needless documentation hampers performance.”

“We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.”

“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”

“Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”

“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”

“Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.”

“Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.”