Quotes of: Necessaries Keyword

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think it is necessary to make it necessary if it is not necessary.

ABC

When they say "no preparation necessary," do they mean to prepare isn't necessary, or that it's necessary to not prepare?

John Alejandro King

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life

God is a necessary evil.

Manoj Vaz

Marriage is a necessary evil

Amit Abraham

In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.

Chinese

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F. H. Bradley

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Sparky Anderson

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.

Traditional

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Heinrich Heine

A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential ...

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet

Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgements must be based on what is right and ...

A Confession