Top 636 Necessary Quotes

Whether you need to like a character, I don’t think that’s necessary in order to portray him.
J. K. Simmons
We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.
Mark Cuban
Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation’s vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
Saul Kripke
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
George Gaylord Simpson
Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.
Sarah McLachlan
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud
I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while – that’s how they learn to be creative.
Kim Raver
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Eric Hobsbawm
Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
Jeff Miller
Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
Maurice Strong
It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
Bob Schaffer
The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
Frank Gaffney
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Antisthenes
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Karel Capek
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
Ajay Devgan
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
Cal Hubbard
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
Christine Lagarde
It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Alexandre Dumas
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich
It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.
Morihei Ueshiba
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
Bill Toomey
O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.
Robert Burns
The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary s

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz
When you’re asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don’t think many people know about that.
Eric Topol
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.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Robert Vaughn
Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden
The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It’s not for us. It’s maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don’t slam the door.
Michio Kaku
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
Arthur Young
With my kids, they’re told 75 times a day that they’re loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.
Johnny Depp
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant
I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.
Tech N9ne
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
John Shadegg
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Pope Francis
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.
John Keegan
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
Deborah Tannen
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
Knute Nelson
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
Wynonna Judd
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith
The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
J. D. Vance
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
Stephen Jay Gould
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
Adam Braun
It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.
Akshaye Khanna
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.
Nicos Anastasiades
The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka