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Quotes About Necessity

Para qué recordar lo que no me sirve?
~ Ray Bradbury
You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.
~ Joseph Conrad
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Nice little saloon, isn't it I said, as if noticing it for the first time. At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice.
~ Joseph Conrad
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury
~ Joseph Conrad
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
~ Joseph Conrad
Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions.
~ Joseph Conrad
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
~ Joseph Conrad
Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Youth is insolent; it is it's right - it's necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence. He
~ Joseph Conrad
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
~ Joseph Heller
That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.
~ Joseph Heller
Just follow my first rule of life, Dan said as he got out of the Jeep. Everybody's gotta eat. … How did you know a guy named Joe worked here? Amy asked as they dropped the food bags on a table. That's my second rule of life, Dan said. There's always a guy named Joe.
~ Jude Watson
To have him look at her as if she was a piece of office equipment whose presence offended him but whom he was obliged out of neccessity to have nearby.
~ Judith McNaught
Curzon stood up. He gestured with a fist. "I don't want you to think about anything," he said. "I want you to feel. Feel the rightness of this. The correctness of this vision. The necessity of it." Steward could see patches of sweat under Curzon's arms. "I want you to sense, Steward, that this is something worth having.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Necessity is a cold mistress, but Liberty inspires delightful bed-play.
~ Walter Jon Williams
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society…. A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
~ Walter Lippmann
Querer algo con todas las fuerzas no es malo, convertirlo en imprescindible, sí.
~ Walter Riso
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.
~ Walter Russell
For you also came into existence not when you chose, but when the world had need of you.
~ Ward Farnsworth
The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
~ Warren Ellis
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
La belleza interior es la que se emplea por una necesidad interior imperiosa, renunciando a la belleza habitual. Naturalmente, parece fea al que no está acostumbrado a ella, ya que el ser humano en general tiende a lo externo y no está dispuesto a reconocer la necesidad interior (¡especialmente hoy!)
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
~ Wendell Willkie