Quotes About Necessity

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

God places the solitary in families,' comforting words from the Bible … families, by blood, by obligation, by necessity, by desire … and sometimes, if one is very lucky, by love.

It was like seeking water while in a desert, you just required it and didn't care how you got it.

So if it appears that my argument supports the necessity of lawyers, please accept that I say it with reluctant awareness that things would be worse without them.

Necessity is a mother.

Saying this is bad is like saying traffic is bad, or health-care surtaxes, or the hazards of annular fusion: nobody but Ludditic granola-crunching freaks would call bad what no one can imagine being without.

In his numb helpless black isolation he he needs the emotional center of his life, the object of his complete adoration, his fiancée, more than ever; and yet he knows that it is precisely his state of helpless, in-efficacious isolation- a state he is in through exactly zero fault of his own- that is of necessity driving the lovely woman he adores farther and farther away.

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.

but I suppose it could be considered a necessary evil." "And you've got to admit, with the way things are going

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop. [ New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

Sometimes our best isn't good enough. SOmetimes we must do what is required

To them the mine was a benevolent Moloch to whom they fed their children at an early age and from whom they took their daily bread.

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.

unfortunately we have to make war as we must and not as we should like to.

Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and above all the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men's brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands….

Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that occupation out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them.

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.

As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.