Quotes About Necessities

Both beliefs take the temporary habits of an age of excess and treat them as necessities, and both of them box our collective imagination into a futile quest to sustain the unsustainable instead of looking at the real alternative to the extravagant use of fossil fuels.

After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

God is never concerned with the supply of our wants including yours. Yes, he is only concerned with the supply of your necessities.

You may never acquire and use everything that you want in life. But guess what? You do have access to your basic and daily needs or rather the five necessities of life (food, water, clothing, air and shelter). And that is a logical reason why you should always thank God Almighty everyday come what may. ~Emeasoba George

You may never acquire and use everything that you want in life. But guess what? You do have access to your basic and daily needs or rather the five necessities of life (food, water, clothing, air and shelter). And that is a reasonable reason why you should thank or appreciate God almighty everyday come what may.

You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires.

This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL SEGUNDO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PRESUPUESTA TUS GASTOS PARA QUE TENGAS LAS MONEDAS CON LAS CUALES PAGAR POR TODO LO QUE NECESITAS, PARA PAGAR LO QUE DISFRUTAS Y PARA GRATIFICAR LOS DESEOS QUE VALEN LA PENA, SIN GASTAR MÁS DE NUEVE DÉCIMAS PARTES DE LO QUE GANAS».

Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.

We have a deeply rooted misconception in our country that unhoused people have done something to deserve their conditions - when the reality is that unhoused people are living the consequences of our government's failure to secure the basic necessities people need to survive.

Humans can only live without oxygen for three minutes, water for three days and food for three weeks.

Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.

They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.

what the market does. It introduces luxuries for the wealthy, and the wealthy subsidize innovations that turn luxuries—cell phones, cars, medicine, computers, nutritious food, comfortable homes, etc.—into necessities. It is the greatest triumph of alchemy in all of human experience, and the response from many in every generation is ingratitude and entitlement.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Every free-born American has a right to name his own necessities.

In the meantime the companies had been looking for arms, clothing and other equipment. State and Confederate authorities soon exhausted their supplies, and volunteer units had to scramble for themselves. But during the high tide of patriotism of 1861 there was no lack of will and effort to provide all necessities.