Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
It's hard to leave behind those people who were once important in your life, but sometimes it's necessary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“Once you buddy up to killers you cannot allow yourself to take their criminality too seriously. You become yourself an apologist for… — J.R.Nyquist Copy Share Image
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of… — Giovanni Agnelli Copy Share Image
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When a person, group, or a government is speaking of necessary evils they must first realize that no evil is truly necessary.… — Aaron Lee Copy Share Image
“The actual structure of the life we know is deeply and pervasively anchored in the particularities of the periodic table. If one… — Eric Smith Copy Share Image
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at… — Theodore Newton Vail Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
![“[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like…” quote by Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3e/thomas-hobbes-1127_action_necessity-is-the-sum-of-all-things-which_904190.jpg)
