Indispensable Quotes

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.