Quotes About Necessity

To get the most out of what you wanted, you had to have what you needed first.

It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Akhmatova, like Gogol, wanted to possess nothing. She gave away the presents given to her, and a few days later they would be found in other people's houses. This characteristic recalls the behavior of nomads, compelled to the provisional by necessity and by choice...When eastern Europe furnishes such models of detachment, why seek them out in India or elsewhere? (from Anathemas and Admirations)

Rudeness affected Margaret like a bitter taste in the mouth. It poisoned life. At times it is necessary, but woe to those who employ it without due need.

Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.

Oswald Chambers puts it all in perspective when he writes, "Remember, no one has time to pray; we have to take time from other things that are valuable in order to understand how necessary prayer is. The things that act like thorns and stings in our personal lives will go away instantly when we pray; we won't feel the smart anymore, because we have God's point of view about them. Prayer means that we get into union with God's view of other people."9

King conveyed the gravity of the moment in 1968 and the necessity for the Poor People's Campaign, he conjured, without a hint of nostalgia, a history of the heroism of everyday people acting against all odds, a history no less full of disappointment and trauma. He

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for the moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

No creo en el arte que no nace de la necesidad del hombre de abrir su corazón.

No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.