He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray… — Yevgeny Vakhtangov Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Necessary.—One of those things that may drive a thinker into despair is the recognition of the fact that the illogical is necessary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...something can be a good thing and yet not a necessary thing. It is good for people to be expert at brain… — Victor Lee Austin Copy Share Image
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at… — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. — Gregory Skovoroda Copy Share Image
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“don't ever allocate necessary time for unnecessary things. Understand what time it is to do what it is” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image