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Quotes About Necessity

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
~ Amanda Schull
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
~ Nathaniel Smith
Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.
~ Jean Chatzky
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.
~ Sean Parker
I have a SIM card ejector tool everywhere I go. It's probably not a normal thing to have, but as a guy who's moving between phones often, I kind of have to have one.
~ Marques Brownlee
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.
~ David Harsanyi
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
~ Cesare Beccaria
The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe.
~ Jose Rodriguez
If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strategist and will work miracles of timing to assist our destruction.
~ Sebastian Barry
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
~ Sebastian Junger
You. I want you and I don't want to be a luxury. I want you to need me. I want you to not be able to concentrate because you're thinking about me. I want you to reach for your phone because you thought of something you have to share with me. I want you to not even be able to breathe at the thought of never seeing me again, because that's how I feel about you, Paige. I want to be a necessity.
~ Shannon Stacey
We do the best that we are able, my child. We make the best decision we may, dependent upon our experience and our training. It is what we owe to kin and to those who reside under our care. If it were true, I would tell you that necessity makes us wise. What I will tell you is that we all do our best; that we all make errors; and that those who love us will forgive us.
~ Sharon Lee
What I want, isn't what I need...
~ Shayla Black
For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapacity of the people to govern themselves.
~ Shelby Foote
When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
~ Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.
~ Gertrude Stein
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
~ Stefan Molyneux
To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
~ James Mill
sometimes we have no choice but to be selfish if we are to . . . survive" Excerpt From Someone to Hold
~ Mary Balogh
Teilhard de Chardin says somewhere that man's most agonizing spiritual dilemma is his necessity for food, with its unavoidable attachments to suffering. Who would disagree.
~ Mary Oliver
Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion; and why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
~ Mary Shelley