Necessary Quotes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.