Quotes About Necessity

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing.

Il coraggio a volte è una via obbligata.

Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.

That was the funny thing about my feelings for Ben - in most ways, they had nothing to do with Daniel. My feelings for them seemed like two entirely separate but necessary chambers of my heart.

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come.

Accordingly, the Chinese texts regard war not as an instrument for the attainment of this end or that but as the product of stern necessity, something which must be confronted and coped with and managed and brought to an end. Clausewitz emphasizes that war is brutal and bloody and seeks to achieve a great victory. By contrast, the Chinese texts are permeated by a humanitarian approach and have as their aim the restoration of dao.

War was neither a means in the hands of policy nor was it an end in itself. Instead it was regarded as an evil; albeit one that was sometimes made necessary by the imperfection of the world.

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other; it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other; it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

Here's a lesson for you, Clare. Frivolity is usually far more profitable than necessity.

we shouldn't add features until they are needed. Forget just in case; develop just in time.

Life is much, much more than is necessary and much, much more than any of us can bear, so we erase it or it erases us, we ourselves are an erasure of everything we have forgotten or don't know or haven't experiences, and on our deathbed, even that limited erased 'whole' becomes further diminished...

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was.

It is necessary to mankind in general, that there should be religion in the world, absolutely necessary for the preservation of the honour of the human nature, and no less so for the preservation of the order of human societies.

We need. To need is to be human.

As a complement to science, therefore, we must also cultivate a "science of the mind, "or what we can call spirituality. This spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity.

While the insights of science can help us change our world, only human thought and concern can enlighten us about the path we should follow in life. As a complement to science, therefore, we must also cultivate a "science of the mind, "or what we can call spirituality. This spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

We become used to thinking that all of this exists necessarily and unshakeably.