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Quotes About Necessity

He has always done what was needed to survive, and if his judgement of what was necessary was sometimes questionable. . . that is what it is to be young.
~ Hilary Mantel
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
One is this: without the means to pay experts, it's necessary to evolve a complex ecosystem of useful amateurs.
~ Holly Black
First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Anti-life, of which the Death Dwarves were a prominent species, were of necessity remarkably difficult to kill, being not quite really alive in the first place.
~ Unknown
Even with the most dependable of refrigeration systems, it is prudent to carry at least 30 days worth of packaged and canned meals on board.
~ Unknown
Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have for making annexation of property or territory, it is very easy to assert, but much less easy to disprove, that it is necessary for the wants of the country.
~ Unknown
It's better to HAVE and NOT NEED than to NEED and NOT HAVE.
~ Unknown
Printer drivers are the most important things in the history of the world.
~ Unknown
Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
~ Unknown
Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.
~ Lionel Shriver
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.
~ Unknown
Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
~ Eric Bana
You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.
~ Gillian Anderson
Tired and old, they kept on existing, against the grain, simply because they were too weak to die, because death could only come to them from the outside: strains of music alone can proudly carry their own death within themselves like an internal necessity: only they don't exist. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Soldiers' shoes were the prime necessity. Therefore, a scale was established, by which first shoes and then cartridge-boxes had the preference; after these, artillery-harness, and then saddles and bridles.
~ Jefferson Davis
Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Parents, Maisie had learnt over the years, may be considered an unfortunate necessity by their offspring, but more often than not they are also an embarrassment.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Expressing anger is necessary.
~ Jenny Holzer
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without." George
~ Jerome K. Jerome
George said: You know we are on the wrong track altogether. We must not think of things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without. (Chapter III)
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Getta via il ciarpame, amico! Che la tua barchetta sia leggera, e porti soltanto ciò di cui hai bisogno.
~ Jerome K. Jerome