Necessary Quotes

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.