Necessarily Quotes
1895 Necessarily quotes by 1513 unique authors
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His…
— Leila Aboulela
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Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide.…
— Carter Heyward
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The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer -…
— Herman Kahn
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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using…
— Steven Johnson
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect…
— Mary Midgley
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Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in…
— Robert Fritz
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
— Stanley Crouch
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it…
— Susan Griffin
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I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an…
— J. Maarten Troost
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By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he…
— Helen Rowland
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may…
— Matt Chandler
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic…
— Zach Braff
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Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
— Judith Merril
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When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it…
— Nora Ephron
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and…
— Caroline Knapp
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If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
— Linus Torvalds
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As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe…
— Grimes
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You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall…
— William Bolcom
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The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than…
— Brian Tracy
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