Necessity Quotes · Page 3

“If death is necessity life is a choice”

— Yasser Hakeem

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

— Rebecca West

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

— Thomas Jefferson

Health is not an option, but a necessity!

— Spencer Tilmon

Invention is the mother of necessity.

— Thorstein Veblen

Chance and necessity.

— Jacques Monod

Necessity does not submit to debate.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

Physical contact is a human necessity.

— David Byrne

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

— Sam Graves

Gender parity in management is a necessity.

— Richard Edelman

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

— Kenneth Kaye

“Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?”

— Geoffrey Hill

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

— Jane Fonda

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

— Slobodan Milosevic

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

— Dante Alighieri

“Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.”

— Pearl Zhu

When everything is nothing, nothing becomes everything. Everything in this world is the fruit of chance and necessity for us to make…

— Edwin Mamerto

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

— Marc Jacobs

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

— Sylvie Guillem

“Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority.…

— Karen Armstrong

“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth…

— Frank Herbert

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

— R. C. Sproul

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a…

— Caroline Myss

It is a human necessity no matter how bad life gets or dinghy a place can be to find the beauty inside…

— Ryan Swain

“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking…

— Jon Bing

I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral…

— Michael Ignatieff

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and…

— Michael Leunig

Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range;…

— Lulu

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There…

— Chiang Kai-shek

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no…

— Jesse Ball

“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“Every human society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a…

— Rafael Sabatini

Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different…

— Nomy Arpaly

“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only…

— Immanuel Kant

“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By…

— H.L. Mencken

“Discrimination -in the sense of sustaining a statistical predictive trait of an individual’s group to make a decision about the individual -is…

— Stephen Pinker

I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven;…

— Samuel Rutherford