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Quotes About Necessity

Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.
~ Anne Carson
Are these words true? At the second: Are they necessary? At the third: Are they kind?
~ Anne D. LeClaire
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
~ Anne Michaels
Need is not quite belief.
~ Anne Sexton
Balance" is a luxury. Equality is a necessity. When we stop talking about work-life balance and start talking about discrimination against care and caregiving, we see the world differently.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, ìA man can live without art, but not without culture.
~ Anonymous
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's MasterCard.
~ Anonymous
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
~ Jason Alexander
The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.
~ Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.
~ E. Howard Hunt
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
~ Bernhard von Bulow
I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
~ Euripides
necessity breaks even the strong.
~ Euripides
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
~ Euripides
there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want—not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
the sense of futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To publish – the socialization of one's self. A vile necessity! But still not a real act, since it's the publisher who makes money, the printer who produces. It at least has the merit of being incoherent.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pobres semidioses novatos que conquistan imperios con la palabra y con la intención noble, pero necesitan dinero para pagar el cuarto y la comida!
~ Fernando Pessoa