Quotes About Necessity

Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. "And nothing less,

All our choices, decisions, intuitions, other mental events, and our actions are no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Speed is a luxury in my mind, quickness is a necessity.

High speed Internet access isn't a nice thing to have, it's a necessary thing to have.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.

I think one of the biggest things is I wasn't spoiled as a kid. I got what I needed. I didn't always get what I wanted. But it's good to have what you need.

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Le persone che aveva consultato gli avevano unanimemente risposto che la matematica, come il restauro degli organi a canne, era sì una bella cosa, ma che a un certo punto bisognava pur trovare un lavoro che desse da mangiare.

But your relationship with air—that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.