Quotes About Necessity

Necessity has the face of a dog.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

La culture n'est pas un luxe, c'est une nécessité

If you didn't work—hunt game, harvest crops, or raise livestock—you didn't live long.

the time when we tend to notice that we need toilet paper tends not to be the moment when we are in a position to buy it. Relying

His sextant is a natural extension of any seaman navigator; virtually a part of him. Even today, in a maritime world of satellite precision fixing, the sextants are as much a necessity as they were aboard the Indiamen of old. No well-run merchantman will make an ocean passage without each and every one of her deck officers reporting to the bridge before midday, sextant in hand in preparation for 'sights'.

The experience is necessary to add emotional belief to intellectual understanding. But the impact of experience always fades to some degree.

Throughout this time I sensed that God was playing a game with me. Perhaps He was using these experiences to teach me the difference between a Want and Need. Toothpaste tasted good, new razor blades shaved quicker – but these were luxuries, not necessities. I was certain that should a real Need ever arise, God would supply it.

Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]

Frisbees are like towels - you should never leave home without one.

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.

How obvious it is it, too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is the highest value.… He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion, as if he were attending a funeral. (ch. 31) That

Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.

These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel.

I'm a bastard but even I don't kill my own people, unless it's absolutely necessary.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.