Sometimes Necessary Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

• Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well,… — Lord Chesterfield
• No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. — Winston Churchill
• It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities. — Ramachandra Guha
• The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To… — Rebecca Solnit
• It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation — Hilaire Belloc
• Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary. — Sarah Moon
• When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this:… — Madeleine Albright
• Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too… — Rebecca West
• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes… — Carl Jung
• This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and… — Jeremy Narby
• A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. — Ben Okri
• It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously. — Haruki Murakami
• It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier. — E L Konigsburg
• Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack… — Jeff Lindsay
• In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. — Robert Byrne
• In the face of adversity, it is sometimes necessary to cast aside ones pride. — Brahms Georges Joseph

Who Wrote These Sometimes Necessary Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Sometimes Necessary Quotes as follows:

• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Lord Chesterfield
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Ramachandra Guha
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Rebecca Solnit
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Hilaire Belloc
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Sarah Moon
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Madeleine Albright
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Rebecca West
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by George Saunders
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Jeremy Narby
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Ben Okri
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Haruki Murakami
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by E L Konigsburg
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Jeff Lindsay
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Robert Byrne
• 1 Sometimes Necessary Quote by Brahms Georges Joseph