Necessarily Quotes
1895 Necessarily quotes by 1513 unique authors
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Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.
— Cary Grant
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.
— Daniel Gilbert
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it…
— William Hazlitt
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Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
— John Updike
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
— Seneca the Younger
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The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.
— Lamar S. Smith
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I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;…
— Louis Kronenberger
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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
— Mark Twain
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the…
— Cory Doctorow
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In…
— Dalai Lama
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I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory…
— Rick Perry
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He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen-I don't throw anything away. I…
— Cate Blanchett
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Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who…
— Cate Blanchett
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A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless.…
— John Updike
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Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.
— Wiz Khalifa
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily…
— George D. Prentice
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No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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