Necessary Quotes
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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
Jane Austen
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It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
Alexander von Humboldt
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It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.
Galway Kinnell
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
Al Pacino
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Jane Austen
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Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
Marion Milner
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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
Kathleen Grissom
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
Diogenes
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To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
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What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Richard Thompson
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne
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[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Dennis Oppenheim
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Oprah Winfrey
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What is necessary is to rectify names.
Confucius
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The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
Michael Huffington
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
Georges Bataille
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Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
Kareem Mortimer
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...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
Jeff Miller
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses Mendelssohn