#necessary

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ↗

— Fred Allen

#committee #group #unnecessary #unprepared #unwilling

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#connection #different #discouragement #germ #joint

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#harder #heroes #necessary #older #sort

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#i #i am #must #necessary #party

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. ↗

— James A. Leach

#allow #alteration #bush #change #citizens

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#necessary #sovereignty

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#change #himself #his #necessary #person