Quotes About Necessity

she focused on the work with the instant morning energy that can be possessed only by someone who has not yet discovered the immutable necessity of coffee.

the instant morning energy that can be possessed only by someone who has not yet discovered the immutable necessity of coffee.

Sure there's a hell... I could hear him saying it now, now, as I lay here on bed with her breath in my face, and her body squashed against me... It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senile Desire. It is the place here mortal Want dwells with immortal Necessity, and the night becomes hideous with the groans of one and the ecstatic shrieks of the other. Yes, there is a hell, my boy, and you do not have to dig for it.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

Money shouldn't become the necessity of real woman's life. If she has money she spends it, when she is short of money she doesn't care, or just pretends she doesn't.

On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different , aren't they?" "Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go.

He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.

There are two things that are without law, God and necessity.

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

So the non-Christian argues against the Christian idea of God by using non-Christian definitions of love, evil, evidence, necessity, and other key terms. Then why not also argue against a non-Christian idea of God and leave us out of the debate altogether? The argument from the problem of evil is best used by non-Christians against non-Christians.

Theology is necessary for all of thought and life.

Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has managed to muddle along by himself for six months, am ceasing to believe in the urgent necessity of helping him.

You are thrifty yourself, you understand what is absolutely needed. And I ask you, can one do what is absolutely necessary with what remains for one's own use after paying for painting materials, models, and rent? If I had some friends, if I were a little known, yes, then it would be easier; but I have no friends, and my job is to try and make them.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.