Quotes About Necessity

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.' 'And necessity is often a lie

There are poets who glory in their recounts of battle, of all those struggles so deftly ritualized. And they tend lovingly their garden of words, heaping high the harvest of glory, duty, courage and honour. But each of those luscious, stirring words is plucked from the same vine, and alas, it is a poisonous one. Name it necessity, and look well upon its spun strands, its fibrous belligerence.

It is only the dumb beast that understands futile gestures – the cold necessity for them, in the face of all the hard truths. We who hold to the higher aspirations of the intellect, we surrender too quickly. And yet, in looking upon that dog – a creature knowing only loyalty and courage – we find flavours to wound our own souls.

It's the game of seeing all but reacting to nothing. Until necessity forces the issue.

The lamp of divine, written revelation reveals the will of God for the believer. Whether it is expressed by biblical command or precept, by scriptural example or principle, the Word illumines the path every believer must take. This divine light in Scripture is not a mere option, but an absolute necessity for every follower of Christ.

If necessity is the mother of invention, drug use is surely its can-do father.