Necessary Quotes

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Dreams are necessary to life.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

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

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

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.