(479 quotes found)
“Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
John Updike
“Man...must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being...And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.”
William Blackstone
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact”
Thomas Sowell
“The problem I see with the long wavelength is that it's not necessarily going to offer me, the customer, the lowest-cost solution.”
Mike Bennett
“Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once”
Stephanie Luetkehans
“When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary.”
Brock Tully
“I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films,”
Elijah Wood
“In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“What I've seen is that it's not necessarily that the homes are too big, but they're much larger than the homes adjacent to them. The older homes are a lot smaller. When [the new homes] are adjacent to a small ranch or a small Cape Cod, you're really impacting your neighbors.”
Brigette Bogart
