Quotes About Necessity

A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination. A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

There is no toilet paper.

There were irreconcilable differences among the congregations in town, but members from all of them merged solidly on the necessity of this action: Do what you have to. Neither the Convent nor the women in it can continue.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants: it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt Speech to the House of Commons, 1783

No one gets lied to as much as mothers. Necessity is the mother of deduction.

We can't always follow our hearts, no matter how good our intentions are. Sometimes, whether we like it or not, we just have to do whatever's necessary to keep ourselves going.

Women died in childbirth, just as men did on the battlefield, and in both cases it was easier to convince the young and foolhardy to do it, to use them up before they were so old that their bodies refused to do what was necessary.

Life is less a miracle than a necessity for matter and energy

The Marines see that I'm a television reporter working solo—shooting, writing and transmitting my reports without a crew—and they tell me they like my self-reliance. I tell them it's a necessity, because no one wants to work with me anymore.

I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of the necessity of poetry to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poetry that matters, or the way that it matters.

Even in the best of times, meals were rough affairs. Once their private stores ran out, not long after the voyage began, Gates and Somers and all the other important men and women on the vessel were forced to eat the same bad food as the lowliest of the deckhands: a hard biscuit and perhaps some cold porridge, washed down by sour beer or foul water.

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?

in the case for China, it should attract American, and Western, investments out of strategic necessity. The strategic reason for doing so is to create a major stabilizer in China's relations with America and with the Western world.

One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion – not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?

La scienza della realtà e della necessità, delle cause e delli effetti, dell'ingegni di puntamento, di percussione e di prótasi, quella sola può leggere dal suo quaderno che in sul capo all'Autore cadrà il pomo dall'albero, piantato nel prato, e disgregatasi invece dalle torri erme dell'alpe cadrà la pietra, cercando il profondo; che il giusto colpo springherà tremendo sopra al bersaglio; e che l'erba, che sarà cresciuta, la mangerà il cavallo, che campato sarà.

Things are transformed one into another according to necessity, and render justice to one another according to the order of time. "According to the order of time" (???? ??? ??? ?????? ?????). From

Le cose si trasformano l'una nell'altra secondo necessità e si rendono giustizia secondo l'ordine del tempo.

Things are transformed one into another according to necessity, and render justice to one another according to the order of time.

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy

If you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.

you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth needBut he to wear them.