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Quotes About Necessity

los «modernos» intentan innovar partiendo de una situación de comodidad, seguridad y previsibilidad en lugar de aceptar la noción de que la inventiva surge de la necesidad.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus, by an inevitable necessity, as a magnet attracts steel-fillings, so did our man of business draw to himself the difficulties which everybody met with.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
By thy first step awry thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity. Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes, yes, but you have to remember people take from a situation the thing that they need.
~ Neal Shusterman
1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.
~ Neal Shusterman
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
~ Charles Bukowski
There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were.
~ Charles Bukowski
Money is like sex," I said. "It seems much more important when you don't have any…
~ Charles Bukowski
Neal would just go on driving, neither grim or happy or sardonic, just there - doing the movements. I understood. it was necessary. it was his bull ring, his racetrack. it was holy and necessary
~ Charles Bukowski
I believe that whatever is necessary is necessary, it is up to you. unfortunately or fortunately I feel my power more and more each passing day, each passing year, of course, there are minor lulls wherein I sincerely think of murdering myself and come very close, especially with hangover. however, this is probably common with most of us.—oh, it was BRAHMS!—damn, I didn't know he wrote such lousy piano stuff.
~ Charles Bukowski
Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do
~ Chetan Bhagat
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.
~ Chris Hedges
Chex Mix when I travel is a must.
~ Peyton List
Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
~ Chuck Inglish
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~ Thorstein Veblen
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity—"teleological" activity. He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of his being such an agent he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.
~ Thorstein Veblen
The things they carried were largely determined by necessity.
~ Tim O'Brien
Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.
~ Tim Winton
Sometimes a commander's decisions must be made without regard for how they will be perceived," Thrawn said. "What matters is that the commander does what is necessary for victory.
~ Timothy Zahn
Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But
~ Timothy Zahn
Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there'd been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.
~ Tobias Wolff
Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.
~ Tom Holt