Top 100 Quotes About Necessary
#2. Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.
Pablo Neruda
#3. Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.
Gus Van Sant
#4. Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
George Santayana
#5. 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
#6. It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
Frederick Lenz
#7. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.
Michael Crichton
#8. Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.
Iyanla Vanzant
#10. It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
Richard Steele
#11. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
Sebastian Junger
#12. Patting someone's hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn't have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass,
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Jon Porter
#14. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.
Michael Finkel
#15. An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust.
Lauren Oliver
#16. Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
Yukio Mishima
#17. In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.
Gerald Brommer
#19. Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.
Tosca Lee
#21. You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.
Gillian Anderson
#22. Saying 'Preach the Gospel Daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'
Ligon Duncan
#23. Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
Lisa Kleypas
#24. The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer.
Italo Calvino
#25. For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.
Michael Lind
#26. It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful ...
Pope John Paul II
#27. For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.
Mortimer J. Adler
#28. It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
Marty Rubin
#29. Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.
Isham G. Harris
#30. For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
#31. A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
Dalai Lama
#32. I needed to touch her. In that moment, it had become as necessary to me as air.
S.L. Jennings
#33. The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#34. To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.
Asger Jorn
#35. Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
David Sylvian
#36. Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
Twyla Tharp
#37. The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.
Thomas Huxley
#38. The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country.
Narendra Modi
#39. Grief is a necessary process. When your spouse dies, you can't avoid it. But remember, it is a process. And with every process, there is a goal. Go ahead-grieve.
Grieve heartily. Grieve so that you can live and love again.
Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge
#40. 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
#41. I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.
Brian Bell
#42. It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world.
Pope Francis
#43. Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. Self-denial is a necessary aspect of a Christian life; that the cross is central to human understanding; and that, without the atonement, every one of us would stand forever in the role of Judas.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#45. The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#46. Failure is good, failure is necessary, failure stimulates a desire for success.
Asa Don Brown
#47. I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
E. J. Hughes
#48. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author
George Washington
#49. I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.
Ann Cleeves
#50. Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
Mark Buchanan
#51. Joy and patience are far above our strength ... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint ... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
John Calvin
#52. In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."
Phil Callaway
#53. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
Mother Teresa
#54. The question of God, by contrast, is one that can and must be pursued in terms of the absolute and the contingent, the necessary and the fortuitous, potency and act, possibility and impossibility, being and nonbeing, transcendence and immanence.
David Bentley Hart
#55. Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris
#56. [A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.
Lisa Bloom
#57. Music is my one necessary tool. I put on music that fits the mood of what I'm writing, to help me stay in the zone and get the emotional tone right.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.
Leonard Gross
#59. For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#60. But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
Voltaire
#61. AR 601-210 was necessary because conscientious objectors could not enlist as medical experiment volunteers when there was no active draft program, according to prior Army regulations. This meant that the supply of WHITECOAT volunteers was cut off at the end of the Vietnam War.
Colin A. Ross
#62. It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#63. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
#64. When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Confucius
#65. To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.
Harry Markowitz
#66. They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
Gregory Maguire
#67. It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. Ford kept his hands on his head. "Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn't even cuff me."
The argument that you don't need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner, Sadie thought.
Michele Jaffe
#70. We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
Goran Persson
#71. A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)
Prem Prakash
#72. Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
Joseph De Maistre
#73. If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.
Amit Kalantri
#74. To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
Carolyn Wells
#75. It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Love is a necessary evil that traps you in illusory gossamer
Samreen Ahsan
#77. Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#78. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Albert Einstein
#79. It is necessary for you to meditate and God will bless you abundantly
Sunday Adelaja
#80. It's one thing to be the greatest; it's another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.
Mos Def
#81. Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
Alexa Von Tobel
#83. I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
Stanley Hauerwas
#84. For preserving peace of soul, it is also necessary to avoid judging others.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
#85. Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. The kind of operation that is necessary to help us out of our dualistic thinking is a nondual experience. Then we begin to see things as one again.
Haridas Chaudhuri
#87. We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
Wendell Berry
#88. I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
Rebecca West
#89. There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.
Les Standiford
#90. The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#91. Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.
Kathryn Cottam
#92. Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!
Elizabeth Warren
#93. For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
George Stevens
#94. He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#95. Having a powerful enough WHY will provide you with the necessary HOW
Tony Robbins
#97. to surrender freedom in the name of safety, we should be on our guard. There is no necessary tradeoff between the two.
Timothy Snyder
#98. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
Gottfried Leibniz
#99. Sometimes pain is necessary to fix a problem that cannot otherwise be corrected. It's unpleasant and unfortunate, but then it's over and everything is set right.
Shannon Messenger
#100. You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
Knute Nelson
