Necessary Quotes · Page 3

Always be kinder than necessary.

— James M. Barrie

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

— Voltaire

Be a politician; no training necessary.

— Will Rogers

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

Change can be scary, but its necessary

— Hussein Nishah

“God is a necessary evil.”

— Manoj Vaz

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

— Maureen Dowd

What is necessary is never unwise.

— Ben Cross

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

— H. Rap Brown

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

— Lori Lightfoot

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

— Will Hurd

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

— Eugene McCarthy

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

— Jonathan Edwards

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

— Mary Oliver

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

— James E. Faust

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in…

— Oscar Isaac

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

— Hjalmar Schacht

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think…

— Stanley Hauerwas

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

— Natasha Trethewey

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never…

— Rem Koolhaas

If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to…

— Amanda Schull

“Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know…

— Jack White

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to…

— Logan Mankins

Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will…

— Annabelle Selldorf

The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do…

— Howard Jacobson

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance…

— Saint Bernard

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

— Anne Carson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

— Samuel Johnson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

— Sparky Anderson

We must live in peace. It's necessary.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

— Paul Tillich

“Experience is a necessary education.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“This is life...by all means necessary”

— Natasha Head