Necessary Quotes

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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 and how we need to get back.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

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.

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.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

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

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.