Necessary Quotes

I don’t expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, ‘I love ‘Drag Race,’ and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.’ Not necessarily an obvious crossover.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.