Quotes About Necessity

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

As pessoas trabalham para ganhar seu pão, pois se não comem, morrem." Para mim, não havia frase mais obscura, difícil de entender e, ao mesmo tempo, que soasse mais ameaçadora do que essa.

Let's just say that my life depends on getting the best blossoms I can. If they don't sell, I don't eat. Perhaps that's why the flowers grow so large—because I'm driven by necessity. People like you, on the other hand, who grow mums as a hobby, are motivated more by simple curiosity, or the desire to satisfy their pride.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.

That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect — which I may call the logic of space — another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny — the logic of time — is a fact of the deepest inward certainty

Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value when enunciated by a solemn ass. Only its necessity to life decides the eminence of a doctrine. A doctrine that does not attack and affect the life of the period in its inmost depths is no doctrine and had better not be taught.

Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.

A man for you is a desire, not a necessity.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

But Jesus, people need, you know? I know that. They need things and they don't know why, they just need them.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

When necessity demands it, I'm an excellent liar. Not the noblest of skills, but useful. It ties closely to acting and storytelling, and I learned all three from my father, who was a master craftsman.

Es amarga. —Así sabes que es una medicina —dije—. Si tuviera buen sabor, sería un caramelo. —Sí, es como la vida misma —replicó ella—. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

If a leg goes bad, you cut it off." She made a firm gesture with the flat of her hand, then picked up her slice of pudding and began to eat it with her fingers. "And some folk need killing. That's all there is to it.

We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.