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Quotes About Necessity

sería fácil ser Dios si el mal no existiera, pero entonces tampoco habría ninguna necesidad de Dios
~ Amelie Nothomb
Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.
~ Charles Kennedy
I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You've got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, 'And it's okay if I wear nude tights with this?' to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
~ Anna Kendrick
Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.
~ Damon Dash
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.
~ Jacob Anderson
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.
~ Kathleen Wynne
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
~ Simone Weil
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
~ Jose Rizal
Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.
~ Debbie Allen
One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'
~ John Zorn
Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.
~ Ash Sarkar
Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity - but necessity is the mother of invention.
~ Ed Davey
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
~ Jacques Lacan
Lacking a dominant big man is a tall order.
~ Scottie Pippen
For Dieste, art in general and religious architecture in particular is not a luxury but a basic commodity, like potatoes.
~ Richard Kieckhefer
Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.
~ Richard Reeves
Wanting and needing are two different things.
~ Richelle Mead
Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
~ Rita Davenport
I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I would say that you have fallen into the commonest fallacy of all in dealing with social and economic subjects—the 'devil theory.' [...] You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. [...] You think banders are scoundrels. They are not. Nor are company officials, nor patrons, nor the governing classes back on earth. Men are constrained by necessity and build up rationalizations to account for their acts.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
People must have bread! People will grow angry without bread!
~ Robert Alexander
The dark inner circle would represent the adamantine individuality of this ideally detached person — detached from robot imprints. The grey circle would represent the ability to move out into each quadrant in times when that was necessary.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Discovering the inapplicability of Judeo-Christian morality in certain circumstances involving affairs of state can be searing. The rare individuals who have recognized the necessity of violating such morality, acted accordingly, and taken responsibility for their actions are among the most necessary leaders for their countries, even as they have caused great unease .. - In Defense of Henry Kissinger, The Atlantic 2013 May http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/p...
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
~ Khaled Hosseini