My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Ellen Willis
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases... →
Charles E. Wilson
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been... →
E. O. Wilson
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
Niklaus Wirth
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic... →
Gene Wolfe
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings... →
Fred Woodworth
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Frances Wright
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley