I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”
“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.”
“It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.”
“It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, he need not be followed.”
“It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.”
“It is necessary to possess the oldest manuscripts, they aid genuine references in case of doubt.”
“It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.”
“It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'”
“It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.”
Source: A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
“It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.”
“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.”
Source: Three Books
“It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.”
“It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.”
“It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.”
“It is necessary to seek simplicity in complexity, as it is to seek humility in the abundant possibility.”
“It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.”
Source: Mutant Message Down Under
“It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.”
Source: Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
“It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.”
Source: Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings
“It is necessary to store power to be free. Right now you are in the gravity field of many different people in your life. Each person you feel attached to is a planetary body...perhaps a heavenly body!”
“It is necessary to strongly reject unanimously anything you don't fully wish to accept.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.”
“It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
“It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.”
“It is necessary to understand that the next person is just as important as you are on this earth. So no one should undermine others based on their current circumstances.”
“It is necessary to understand the soul of the woman. All these things, which are meant to liberate the woman: premarital sex, contraception and abortion, have they liberated her or have they enslaved her?”
Source: Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
“It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How
else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”
Source: Twenty Years After
“It is necessary we know that we need each other.”
“It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.”
“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”
Source: Moonchild
“It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.”
Source: The child in the family
“It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.”
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
Source: Inferno
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.”
“It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.”
“It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.”
“It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.”
“It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.”