Quotes About Necessity

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her.

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

The superfluous is very necessary.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.