Quotes About Necessity

I marked the extraordinary lightness of the thing. It was necessary; the weight of an ordinary bone would never have allowed something so large as a dragon to fly.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

We must refocus our collective memory. The necessity for this has never been greater as we discover that the path of 'progress' is extinguishing the very conditions for life on earth.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.

Hunger is not debatable.

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

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

In life, never be something the world can live without.