Quotes About Necessities

68% of all Child Protective Services (CPS) cases do not involve child maltreatment but are for "deprivation of necessities due to poverty.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

Min mors ønsker er simple, men de er ikke til forhandling. Hun oplever dem som nødvendigheder. Lige nu er hun nødt til at have en kop kaffe. Det vil ikke være muligt at komme uden om dette ønske, som hun kalder et behov, før hun holder kruset med den dampende varme væske i sin hånd og fører det op til munden.

Sus deseos son simples, pero innegociables. Los experimenta como necesidades.

They said that everything men do—whether it is organizing a government, establishing laws, supporting a particular moral code or practicing religion—is merely the result of his desire to protect whatever mode of production he is currently using to secure the necessities of life.

Les vrais besoins ont une limite naturelle: nourriture, vêtements, abris, soins… Le superflu, lui, n'a pas de limite.

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

When steel sagged, when clothes grew moth-eaten on haberdashery racks, when cars rusted on showroom floors for want of customers, the film industry nevertheless flourished. In bad times as in good, the only two absolute necessities were food and illusions.

We go through life, we need food, we need water and we need doctors. You have those three things, you're ahead of the game.

toothbrush and dental powder; a mattress and cover, two sheets, one pillow case. An instant after

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive

Money can change your circumstances to a certain point, but money doesn't help much once you have your basic needs met.

It's very illuminating to have to make a list, which you will very possibly have occasion to use, of the things you'd save in an extremity. It reduces one's material possessions to their proper place.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

For at least five hundred years, the Hawaiians lived in total isolation . They had no trade with the outside world, no other place to turn for the necessities of life; any islander could, with a walk to the nearest hilltop, see the limits of Hawaii's natural wealth. For all intents and purposes, they were living on a tiny, fragile planet surrounded by outer space.

Chocolate and wine and fun weekend are delightful gifts indeed, and God is glorified when we partake with joy and gratitude. But viewing these blessings as necessities is self-indulgent. If we demand them as rights, they will enslave us, evaporating the delight and glory they were meant to convey. No one actually needs a spa day or wine or chocolate or even a vacation.

Geralmente a nascença dos estylos se origina ou das necessidades características de cada povo, pelos materiaes mais accessiveis, pela natureza do solo ou do clima, ou então por um desses fortes movi- mentos espirituaes que modificam a situação do homem em face da cousa publica, dando-lhe novas necessidades e deveres...

Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

I still long for a shared certainty, an assumption of safety, the reassurance of believing that others know better than me what's for the best. But I have been led by the bitter necessities of an interesting life to value that age-old practice of the wise: Doubt.

She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter and money. Romantic love was an extra, nice if it came along, but definitely superfluous to the main requirements of existence.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.