The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“We change when we need to. Necessity is the mother of adaptation.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis. — Jean Monnet Copy Share Image
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Love is an excessively used term. Most don't realize that it is a necessity to succeed in this world. The most powerful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity. — Mike Lindell Copy Share Image
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
“Priorities are simple to establish; what is desire and what is necessity?” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
