Necessary Quotes

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

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.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.