(666 quotes found)
“It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.”
Christina of Sweden
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”
Christy Mathewson
“Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.”
William Maxwell
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
Winston Churchill
“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.”
W. Kelly Griffith
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet
“The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
Eric Hoffer
“It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.”
William Morris
“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind”
John Maynard Keynes
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
Margaret Mead
