Necessary Quotes

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.