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Quotes About Necessity

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
~ Pico Iyer
Every guy has got to have a tuxedo. If you're ever invited to an event where a tuxedo is necessary, you need to have it ready to go. A good-fitting one, too. It just has to look good.
~ Matthew Daddario
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
~ Robin Day
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
~ Saul Griffith
There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
~ Oscar Wilde
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity
~ George III
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~ Albert Einstein
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
~ Ludwig Quidde
The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
~ Millard Fillmore
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
~ Edmund Burke
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.
~ Ida Tarbell
I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.
~ Robert M. Gates
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
~ Stephen Cambone
El que fuera a ser difícil no lo hacía menos necesario.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.
~ Susan Vreeland
Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?
~ Suzanne Collins
Courage in battle was often necessary because of someone else's poor planning.
~ Suzanne Collins
Actually, Katniss isn't complaining because she has no intention of staying with the "Star Squad," but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.
~ Suzanne Collins
Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.
~ Suzanne Collins
Panic begins to set in. I can't stay here. Flight is essential… But I can't let my fear show.
~ Suzanne Collins
Real rebels don't put a secret symbol on something as durable as jewelry. They put it on a wafer of bread that can be eaten in a second if necessary.
~ Suzanne Collins