Necessary Things Quotes

• The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Witty, Smart

  1736 Le Mondain.

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• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

  Anne Baxter

  Latin, Unity, Liberty

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sad, Depression, Hurt

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• It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

  Peter Kreeft

  Real, Fictional Stories, Easier

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

  Jessamyn West

  Umpires, Justice, Terrible

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• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Weakness, Inability

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus, Book II. Ch, XI. St. 1,

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• The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is you’re reinventing; that’s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.

  Hilton Als

  Memories, Artist, World

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Sacred

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• Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

  Gregory Skovoroda

  Simple, Giving, Thanks

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

  Glenn Gould

  Cutting, Artist, Creative

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• ... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

  Myrtle Reed

  Heart, Matter, Ache

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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• He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
  [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

  Horace

  Use, Poverty, Poor

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• ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Night, Breathing

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

  Kathleen Norris

  Together, Christ, Absurd

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.56, Penguin

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• It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

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• Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Peace, Believe, Frustration

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.112, Wizards of the Coast

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• Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

  Ray Bradbury

  Two, Numbers, Quality

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Political, True Or False

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

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• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

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• The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.

  Yevgeny Vakhtangov

  Quality, Needs, Actors

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• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Prayer, Here And Now

  "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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