It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
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… — Cher Copy Share Image
Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
When you take stock, there are so many more choices and points of view that are necessary. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. — James Salter Copy Share Image
What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“How can one part be more important if each part is completely necessary?” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have a good sense of humour personally to do comedy well. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation. — Chuck Inglish Copy Share Image
It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything. — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
