To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his...

The practice of doing more than necessary works best when packing lunch boxes

Marriage is a necessary evil

You know, it’s a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we’re drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted...

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.

Change has to be either good or necessary.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about ‘the real thing’ is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda...

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the...

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why...

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

To celebrate the birth of new life, is to appreciate the miraculous work of the Creator.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Why is Slavery so much condemn’d and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!

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.

To be one of the world’s top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn’t have much carry-over.

No! Wait! I’ve got a better idea…””Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.””And your point is…””Let’s broaden the definition of ‘necessary’.”-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.