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Quotes About Necessity

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.
~ Cassandra Clare
No one can live with nothing.
~ Cassandra Clare
RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW BEWARE OF DOG ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES DO NOT STEAL QUEENS A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Almanack's deep green eyes shone. "Is it? Have you done a long, hard thing for the sake of someone you loved, so long and so hard that your body shook with the difficulty of it, that you were thirsty and aching and ravenous by the time it was done, but it did not matter, you did not even feel the thirst or the pain or the hunger, because you were doing what was Necessary?" "Yes," September whispered.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Necessity unites.
~ German proverb
Necessity teaches all things
~ German proverb
Não existe no mundo raça mais necessária do que os imbecis. Se não houvesse génios, ainda seríamos bárbaros, mas sem néscios a espécie humana teria terminado desde longa data.
~ Giovanni Papini
Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show – must go on.
~ Glen Duncan
What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. We
~ Glen Duncan
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
~ Gloria Steinem
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
~ Gloria Steinem
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.
~ Gloria Steinem
It is beyond doubt that Xi and Li understand, and even acknowledge, that reform is no longer a choice but a necessity,
~ Gordon Chang
Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.
~ Gordon Dahlquist
it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.
~ Gordon S. Wood
I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
~ Winston Churchill
Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.
~ Terri Guillemets
did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang. In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.
~ Jack London
Il avait ignoré que l'amour lui était nécessaire et l'ignorait encore. Mais il en voyait les manifestations qui l'émouvaient profondément.
~ Jack London
But the man dreaming greatly and pressed by sordid necessity, he is the man who must confront the absolute contradiction. He is the man who cannot pour his artist-soul into his work and exchange that work for bread and meat. The world is strangely and coldly averse to his exchanging the joy of his heart for the solace of his stomach. And to him is it given to discover that what the world prizes most it demands least, and that what it clamors the loudest after it does not prize at all.
~ Jack London
Smade's patrons were diverse: explorers, locaters, Jarnell technicians, private agents in search of lost men or stolen treasure, more rarely an IPCC representative, or "weasel", in the argot of the Beyond. Others were folk more dire, and these were of as many sorts as there were crimes to be named. Making a virtue of necessity, Smade presented the same face to all.
~ Jack Vance
It sounds awful, but a crisis rarely ends without blood on the floor. That's not easy or pleasant. But sadly, it is often necessary so the company can move forward again.
~ Jack Welch