Quotes About Necessity

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

The world came into existence and evolved over billions of years. If conditions hadn't been right for life to occur, we simply wouldn't exist. Our world is a reflection of who we are and how we evolved. The mistake is finding ourselves alive on Earth and assuming we were meant to be here, instead of merely appreciating the fact that we are. We can appreciate our reality without assuming our necessity. T

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

In hunger, one doesn't choose

and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing:

Accountability is not easy, and it doesn't come naturally. But in the long run it's incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it's nothing but good.

Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing:

the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.

Alas, our fundamental experience is duality: mind and body, freedom and necessity, evil and good, and certainly world and God. It is the same with our protest against pain and death. In the poetry I select I am not seeking an escape from dread but rather proof that dread and reverence can exist within us simultaneously.

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

If you are a human being in modern society on planet Earth, you need money to do pretty much everything, especially to grow into a more expansive version of yourself.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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.

In the past few years it had become a rare luxury for all of them to be together at once, especially since Daisy stayed in America with her husband, Matthew, for long periods of time. The trips were necessary for both of them: Matthew was a successful business entrepreneur, and Daisy was a successful novelist with a publisher in New York as well as London.

Conclusions were necessary and she had come up with them.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

There's a big difference between want and need, she muttered to herself, picking her pad and pen back up. I mean I want a bikini body, but I need chicken nuggets.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

He didn't mention the other part of the book. That following the heroes when they set out was the tenth member of their party. A broken creature who went through all the same dangers and trials, who had made a single bad choice and taken up a power he didn't understand - and who had become a demented, miserable, living nightmare because of it. In the end, he had been just as necessary to the overthrow of the darkness. But he sure as hell didn't enjoy his part.