I Quotes
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“It is nearly impossible to be here now when you think there is somewhere else to be.”
“It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.”
“It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.”
“It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”
“It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.”
“It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“It is necessary at this point to recount what actually occurred, as opposed to what was generally supposed to have occurred, on that terrible evening when Lucas killed a man.”
Source: The Green Knight
“It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also
necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone
noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to
be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.”
“It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.”
“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.”
Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture
“It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.”
Source: Young India
“It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).”
“It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.”
“It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.”
Source: Think on these things
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”
“It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality”
“It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.”
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
“It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.”
“It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.”
“It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.”
“It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.”
“It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.”
“It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.”
“It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”
Source: The Montessori Reader
“It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.”
“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”
“It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it is in your awareness that, 'How does my speech affect others?”
Source: Anger
“It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.”
“It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.”
“It is necessary for us to incur mistakes to refine the intricate art of existence.”
“It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.”
Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition
“It is necessary for you to meditate and God will bless you abundantly”
“It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.”
“It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration.”
“It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life”
“It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.”
“It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.”
“It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.”
“It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.”
“It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.”
“It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Heart
“it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.”
“It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.”
Source: The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1