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Quotes About Necessity

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.
~ Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
He who is lawless is free. Necessity and time are conventional phenomena. Without hypocrisy or fear ye could do as ye wish
~ Austin Osman Spare
Dievai visas g?rybes parduoda tikr?ja kaina, yra pasak?s vienas senov?s poetas. Jis b?t? gal?j?s pridurti, kad pa?ias ver?iausias jie parduoda pigiausiai. Viskas, kas mums tikrai naudinga - nebrangu; tik už tai, be ko galima apsieiti, mokam didelius pinigus. Kas gražu - išvis neparduodama; visa tai nemirtingieji dievai mums duoda veltui.
~ Axel Munthe
others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
The mind that doesn't need any outer conditions for happiness is the mind that can say, "This is the release from all suffering. This is true happiness." Such a mind sees with clarity the absolute reality of what's happening in this universe and doesn't have to hang on to anything, attach to anything, doesn't have to become anything, doesn't have to be anything. It just does what is necessary at each particular moment and then lets go.
~ Ayya Khema
Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity enforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.
~ bacon francis xviii
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
~ Greg Boyle
Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.
~ Erik Prince
A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
~ Edward Zwick
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
~ Mario Monti
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
~ S. Truett Cathy
Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.
~ Gary Paulsen
discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He
~ Gary Paulsen
The hatchet. The key to it all. Nothing without the hatchet. Just that would take all his thanks.
~ Gary Paulsen
I love to roam around and I like tough self-discipline, I don't mind hard work and being poor never bothered me. I guess that's what makes it possible to carry on like I do. Being free doesn't mean evading necessity, it means outsmarting it.
~ Gary Snyder
Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the state from social petrification and stagnation
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
customs must be introduced that require, if one is to be aware of their necessity and utility, either trusting belief or habituation from childhood on. Thus it is evident that a Volksreligion, if as the concept of religion implies its teaching is to be efficacious in active life, cannot possibly be constructed out of sheer reason. Positive religion necessarily rests on faith in the tradition by which it is handed down to us.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?
~ George Eliot
Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.
~ George Eliot
Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
~ Omari Hardwick
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
~ James Hillman