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Quotes About Necessity

To be published = the socialization of the self. What a base necessity!
~ Fernando Pessoa
it is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.
~ Flann O'Brien
I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.
~ Christoph Waltz
I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.
~ Bushwick Bill
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~ James K. Polk
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
~ Lactantius
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
~ Avicenna
In truth the importance of U.K. airstrikes and the U.K.'s eight additional planes is more political than military. It is in honesty a micro military issue. There is no great military necessity for the U.K. to be involved since planes are queuing up from a wide range of countries over the skies of Syria.
~ Crispin Blunt
I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.
~ Les Dawson
For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.
~ Fergie
We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!
~ Hugo Chavez
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
~ Jessamyn West
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~ Samuel Richardson
You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.
~ Robert Ruark
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
~ Robert Shaw
I never realized how much water a person used until I started packing it up from the creek---water for washing clothes, for washing yourself,for cooking,washing dishes. That's all I seem to do all day is pack water and then dump it out.
~ Robert Specht
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
~ Robert Walpole
free will is an illusion, brought to us by evolution. All the things we are commonly blamed or praised for—ranging from murder to theft to Darwin's eminently Victorian politeness—are the result not of choices made by some immaterial "I" but of physical necessity. "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything," Darwin wrote in his notes. "[N]or ought one to blame others.
~ Robert Wright
Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.
~ Roberto Bolano
Still I kept walking. I walked and walked. And from time to time I stopped and said to myself: Wake up, Auxilio. Nobody can endure this. And yet I knew I could endure it. So I baptized my right leg Willpower and my left leg Necessity. And I endured.
~ Roberto Bolano
Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.
~ Roberto Bolano
My kingdom for a flush toilet.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold