Quotes About Necessity

The paradox of history...is that a contingent future, once it enters the present, appears real and even necessary.

Human existence is the change of contingency into necessity through the act of taking up. All that we are, we are on the basis of a factual situation that we make our own and that we ceaselessly transform through a sort of escape which is never an unconditioned freedom.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Tots ho van voler. Ho van fer expressament. Els feia falta per viure perquè s'avorrien. Les cares de tots eren cares de gent que voldrien coses sense saber ben bé quines són les coses que voldria, però que en vol sigui com sigui.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

We need' is always code for 'I want.

In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory .

I buy onions every time I'm in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.

The need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens—second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present" -Niccolo Machiavelli

He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car. "Find the Disir." Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked. "It is neccessary.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present'?

You did me great injustice, dear lady, if you thought for a moment I would propose anything disagreeable to you, unless demanded by the sternest necessity,

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and 'tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.

You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy. --Michelangelo on the dead.

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings- all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. Here, we attempt to bridge the contradictions in our experience: We are the colored in a white feminist movement. We are the feminists among the people of our culture. We are often the lesbians among the straight. We do this bridging by naming our selves and by telling our stories in our own words.

Chance and necessity are sole rulers of beings who are incapable of reflection.