Top 100 Not Necessary Quotes
#1. I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.
Anne Robinson
#2. Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse
Volkmar Essers
#3. Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it.
Steve Merrick
#4. Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.
Wynton Marsalis
#5. It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
Eckhart Tolle
#6. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free
you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.
Arvo Part
#7. There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation.
Frederick Lenz
#9. It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Josiah Strong
#10. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
#11. It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.
Cher
#12. We always want to love the recipients of our charity," the doctor said, negotiating a sharp bend in the road with a surprising demonstration of steering skill, "but it is not necessary. Indeed, it is sometimes not possible.
Alan Bradley
#13. Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
#14. It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
Charles The Bold
#15. If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.
Gertrude Stein
#16. It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.
Francois Englert
#17. Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.
Ken Wilber
#18. Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
Adyashanti
#19. If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
Mary Astell
#20. What I can give is not necessary what you will get but along our disagreements we will find some alternate ways.
Santosh Kalwar
#21. I'm not a big fan of young kids having Facebook. It's not something they need. It's not necessary.
Michelle Obama
#22. It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
Billy Sunday
#23. It can be so important for you, everything related to someone but it is not necessary the same from other side that you hope by giving this much importance
Pawan Mehra
#24. Dutch liberator William the Silent: "It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake; it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.
Clara Claiborne Park
#25. Not necessary that every problem has a solution, you have to live with 'some' problems..rather than forcing a solution and doing a blunder, live with it.. People always have solutions for 'your' problems but none for their own..
Honeya
#26. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
#27. Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
#28. It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Neil Postman
#29. It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.
Frederick Lenz
#30. You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
Ajay Devgan
#31. Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
Samuel Johnson
#32. Losers are not necessary in this world.
Ryukishi07
#33. I find my own happiness in life...other people are not necessary.
Natalie De Clare
#34. I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
Frank Sinatra
#35. Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.
Lawrence Block
#36. It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.
Paulo Coelho
#37. In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring - if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here.
Theodore Dreiser
#38. To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
Henry Miller
#39. It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
Daryl Hannah
#40. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#41. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.
Marissa Meyer
#42. It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism. - John Calvin
John Calvin
#43. Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
Frank Abagnale
#45. Concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it. Thus, blackness is an attribute of a crow,
John Stuart Mill
#46. Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.
Halldor Laxness
#47. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Nancy Herkness
#49. It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.
Franz Kafka
#50. In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
Saint Augustine
#51. When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to make them fall in love with you.
Jane Green
#52. The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Gloria Steinem
#53. In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims[.
Samuel Alito
#55. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
Michael J. Fox
#56. It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.
Ruth Rendell
#57. It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions
Stephanie Kaza
#58. Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Philip Johnson
#59. I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle, if in the end, you win the war.
Jessica Shirvington
#60. I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#61. I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.
Frederick Lenz
#62. It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
Ole Hallesby
#63. Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Karl Lagerfeld
#64. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18
William Irwin
#65. I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.
Aidan Turner
#66. That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable ... but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.
John R. Rickford
#67. Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.
J.K. Rowling
#68. A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
Criss Jami
#69. To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue.
Irma Kaye Sawyer
#70. We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge
George Will
#71. All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.
Lysander Spooner
#72. It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali
#73. There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.
Mary Harron
#74. I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
Dalai Lama XIV
#76. In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot
#77. It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
Marty Rubin
#78. What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.
Gloria Steinem
#79. I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
Xavier Dolan
#80. Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan
#81. Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
Frei Otto
#82. It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
M. R. DeHaan
#83. Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
Robert Breault
#84. It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
#85. I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.
Sydney Pollack
#86. In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.
Leo Szilard
#87. It is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose ... to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#88. I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.
Guy De Maupassant
#89. What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
R.C. Sproul
#90. To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#91. I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.
Terrell Owens
#92. I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.
Phil Klay
#93. It is not necessary to attempt a resolution when it is self-resolving.
David Thorne
#94. We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.
Epicurus
#95. For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.
Cherry Hill
#96. A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary.
Paul Theroux
#97. [Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.
Hermann Hankel
#98. For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
George McGovern
#99. To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.
Gary Hamel
#100. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
William Golding