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Quotes About Necessity

all the bad things that had happened to him were necessary if the intended outcome was to occur.
~ Jonathan Sacks
En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l'adversaire en faisant en sorte que ce dernier ne vous arrache pas les bras pour vous assommer avec.
~ Jonathan Stroud
questo male è necessario per rendere nuovo e vivo il vostro affetto;
~ Emmanuel Mounier
questo male è necessario per rendere nuovo e vivo il vostro affetto; esso è cento volte più rispettoso e amorevole della mancanza di rispetto che implica l'essere concilianti ad ogni costo.
~ Emmanuel Mounier
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
~ Emmanuel Teney
We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
~ English proverb
I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.
~ Epicurus
The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
~ Epicurus
Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...
~ Eric Chaisson
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
~ Eric Chaisson
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.
~ Eric Metaxas
Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties. Whether
~ Eric Metaxas
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.
~ Eric Metaxas
In this book I explain in detail how the emerging process of user-centric, democratized innovation works. I also explain how innovation by users provides a very necessary complement to and feedstock for manufacturer innovation. The ongoing shift of
~ Eric von Hippel
If only one country adopts conscription it automatically forces the rest of the world to imitate its practice. The "abyss calls to the abyss." The United States has been so forced, against her best tradition, to adopt conscription and so becomes a victim of circumstances. Yet, though the majority dislike conscription, still the majority recognize it as a grim necessity of these times.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
It is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity.
~ beckett samuel ii
But there are no grown-ups, that's what you must grow up to know fully; your parents were just two more bodies experiencing landscape and weather, trying to make sense by vibrating columns of air, redescribing contingency as necessity with religion or World Ice Theory or the Jewish science, cutting profound truths with their opposites as the regimes of meaning collapse into the spread.
~ Ben Lerner
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. It might be better to say that experience is the mother of invention. It was the experience of seeing the risen Lord that created the inner circle of Jesus, and the coming of the Spirit that birthed the church. In other words, naturalistic historical explanations alone will never adequately explain the crucial events that led to the rise of the inner-circle leaders within the Christian movement and the rise of the movement itself.
~ Ben Witherington III
When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
~ Benjamin Peirce