Not Necessary Quotes

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. — David Whyte

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary. — George Gurdjieff

The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless it was absolutely necessary. — Mira Grant

Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it. — Steve Merrick

This infatuation must be dispelled; it is necessary for me not to admire you. I do not wish to fall in love. — Ariana Franklin

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. — Warren Buffett

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. — Marlene Dietrich

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else. — Orlando Bloom

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. — Murray Rothbard

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws. — Dick Cheney

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. — Charles The Bold

For those who believe, no words are necessary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible." - SAINT IGNATIUS — Elisa Romeo

Your sarcasm and general assholeness are not necessary," Apollo remarked casually. I grinned at him. "I don't think 'assholeness' is a word. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. — Elizabeth Gaskell

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. — Jef Raskin

You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. — Franz Kafka

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary. — Edgar Friedenberg

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain. — Norman Cousins

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures. — Horst Koehler

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that). — Richard Fortey

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. — Benjamin Disraeli

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool. — Jacob Weisberg

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action. — Jim Ratcliffe

Stop now. Look around you. See what beauty there is. It is not always necessary to talk. — Elizabeth Adler

The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary. — T.R. Fehrenbach

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. — Oscar Wilde

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya

I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary. — Ben Carson

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth. — Deb Caletti

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. — William James

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. — Philip Johnson

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. — Napoleon Hill

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary. — George R R Martin

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. — Fernando Pessoa

This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man. — Fulton J. Sheen

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. — Alphonsus Liguori

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary ... — Kimon Nicolaides

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Taking care of yourself, taking time for yourself & rewarding yourself is NOT selfish. It's important & absolutely necessary! — Tanya Masse

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. — Terry Pratchett

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination. — Marlon Riggs

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone. — Igor Sikorsky

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself. — William Penn

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley

If someone hates you so much that they try to hurt you, defending yourself is not being aggressive, it is doing what's necessary. — Charles F. Glassman

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.] — Philippe Quinault

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. — Sandy Koufax

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them. — John Hubner

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest. — Aldus Manutius

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality. — Jesse Jackson

I am not saying it's easy, I am saying it's necessary! — Carlos Wallace

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think. — Sherry Argov

Friendship is necessary to our well-being - not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need. — Susan W. Tanner

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. — Ruth Rendell

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags. — Anne Lamott

The primary reward is not the goal but what you become as a result of doing all that was necessary to reach the goal. - David McNalley — Carol M. Roberts

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. — Walter Benjamin

I'm not a big fan of young kids having Facebook. It's not something they need. It's not necessary. — Michelle Obama

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public. — Terrell Owens

We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be. — Satsuki Shibuya

Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. — R.J. Palacio

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient. — Julian Baggini

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. — Ram Dass

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one, — David Berlinski

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission - that's not bad politics, that's robbery. — Paul Newman

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around — Maureen Dowd

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. — Helen Keller

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. — Jane Austen

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. — Robert Breault

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves. — NoViolet Bulawayo

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions — Stephanie Kaza

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. — Andrea Leadsom

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living. — Pearl S. Buck

It's necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work. — Judith Rodin

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. — Sorin Cerin

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary. — Gerry Adams

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science. — Carl Sagan

A bedroom is not necessary for me to demonstrate my womanliness! — Sidney St. James

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. — Katharine Whitehorn

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary. — Paul Scott

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. — Gloria Steinem

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. — Sholem Asch

Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. — Stephen D. Krashen

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. — Horace Bushnell

I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense. — Zoe Trope

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. — Marvin Olasky

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. — Thomas Hutchinson

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn — Stanley Kunitz

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary. — Hugh Prather

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. — Ayn Rand

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing. — Ralph Keyes