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Quotes About Necessity

al pobre y al caliente los delata la prisa.
~ Xavier Velasco
I think hunting used to be important for human survival. Thats no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made up of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.
~ Y?ko Tawada
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
~ Yann Martel
Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.
~ Yann Martel
You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
~ Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion
~ Yann Martel
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. What
~ Yann Martel
The grand march of progress apparently includes the unfortunate necessity of chopping down every obstacle in its way.
~ Yann Martel
How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
~ Yann Martel
has also called on Israel to withdraw "from all the occupied Arab lands back to the June 4, 1967 border." Putin has also stressed the necessity of a complete Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights. Growing anti-Semitism
~ Chuck Missler
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
~ Cicero
There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen. Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.
~ CLAMP
There is no such thing as coincidence, only hitsuzen.
~ CLAMP
I must ask, without knowing whom I should ask, if it is really necessary to love the man who slays me; to ask who among you is slaying me. My life, stronger than myself, replies that it wants revenge at all costs. It warns me that I must struggle like someone drowning, even if I should perish in the end. If it be so, so be it.
~ Clarice Lispector
Ah, my love, do not be afraid of neediness: it is our greater destiny. Love is so much more fatal than I had thought, love is as inherent as wanting itself, and we are guaranteed by a necessity that shall renew itself continuously. Love already is, it is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce—which is called passion.
~ Clarice Lispector
There is/no reasoning with need.
~ Claudia Rankine
Our silence, our refusal of discomfort, our willful blindness, the shut-down feeling that refuses engagement, the rage that cancels complexity of response are also strategies. So is the need for answers and new strategies. The call for a strategy is a strategy, and I both respect and understand the necessity of that call.
~ Claudia Rankine
Jesus' deep personal desire is for God to take away the necessity of this vicarious sacrifice. However, his greater desire is to see God's will accomplished, and this is where Jesus' victory over himself occurs.22
~ Unknown
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
~ Unknown
Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. —COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):
~ Clive James
It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.
~ Heraclitus
Men may differ as to the nature and the reach of conversion, but its necessity is established beyond all doubt; the whole of humanity proclaims the truth of the fall.
~ Herman Bavinck
It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita , the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?
~ Hilary Mantel
It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.
~ Hilary Mantel