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Quotes About Necessity

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
~ Steven Pressfield
Constantine said, 'I am an emperor and a warrior, not a bishop or a martyr. A ruler by necessity must continue to sin until the very last day of his life.' Eusebius tried to object, but Constantine silenced him. He said, 'I have much to do in this life before I am ready to put sinning behind me.
~ Steven Saylor
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
~ Steven Weinberg
Da nessun'altra parte il reato commesso per necessità è tollerato come in Germania: è uno di quegli aspetti che i cappellani militari alleati chiamano mancanza di morale. Scendere in basso è più lecito che soccombere.
~ Stig Dagerman
Life without Gimel, especially, was unthinkable to me now.
~ Storm Constantine
She had a part of part to play, involuntarily, and had already embarked upon it.
~ Storm Constantine
I justified these pants every weekend with the reinforcing thought that one can never have enough extra pockets, just in case.
~ Stuart Land
We didn't eat much", one woman told Aaron, "but we always bought a book. It was a necessity of life." The Book Rescuer
~ Sue Macy
Perveen was dismayed. "Is it necessary to burn buildings to control epidemics?
~ Sujata Massey
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
~ Wendell Willkie
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
~ George Santayana
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
~ Jim Carrey
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
~ Zosia Mamet
Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized
~ Sunday Adelaja
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
~ Suze Orman
Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life.
~ Auliq Ice
Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.
~ Miroslav Volf
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
~ Mitch Albom
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said.
~ Mitch Albom
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. "The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give." You
~ Mitch Albom
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?
~ Mona Simpson
A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.
~ Monica Ali