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Quotes About Necessary

But watching Sylvie seemed very much like dreaming, because the motion was always the same, and was necessary, and arduous, and without issue, and repeated, not as one motion in a series, but as the same motion repeated because here was the mystery, if one could find it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A life without flowers is no life at all, for beauty is more necessary than we can imagine.
~ Mario Puzo
Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.
~ Anthony Trollope
It's the same thing," rejoined Sowerby. "We all know what all that flummery means. Men in office, Mark, never do make a distinct promise, — not even to themselves of the leg of mutton which is roasting before their kitchen fires. It is so necessary in these days to be safe; is it not, Harold?
~ Anthony Trollope
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)
~ Shulamith Firestone
A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.
~ Sidney Sheldon
John Templeton's views are regarded by some as eccentric, naive, or dangerously anti-science but by many others as thoughtful, positive, and in today's increasingly unhinged world, vitally necessary.
~ Simon Winchester
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, and without coming any nearer, the very being who is necessary to him as food. It requires the strength of soul that Eve did not have; and yet she had no need of the fruit. If she had been hungry at the moment she looked at the fruit, and if in spite of that she had remained looking at it indefinitely without taking one step toward it, she would have performed a miracle analogous to that of perfect friendship.
~ Simone Weil
Suffering: superiority of man over God. The Incarnation was necessary so that this superiority should not be scandalous.
~ Simone Weil
From out of the community come the people and gifts necessary to initiate, support, help create, and sustain the understandings that are reached.
~ John Paul Lederach
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...
~ John Peter Altgeld
Love is Sine Qua Non. In other words, Love is a virtue which is absolutely necessary in all areas of human lives. Besides that, Love is designed by God for you to embrace it, imbibe it and then live it out wholeheartedly. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Therefore science and religion are each necessary, the one to distinguish individualities, the other to bring individualities into unity.
~ baring gould sabine iii
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
~ Max Baucus
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
~ Eric Garcetti
Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary
~ George Orwell
If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.
~ Gertrude Stein
A strong, thriving workforce is necessary for our broader goals to boost economic development and I look forward to continuing our work to again be the jobs engine throughout the region.
~ Chris Sununu
I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.
~ Jay Parini
I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.
~ Prue Leith
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.
~ Russell Simmons
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
~ Arthur Keith