Necessity Quotes · Page 9

The gods do not fight against necessity.

— Simonides of Ceos

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

— Simon Blackburn

And nature must obey necessity.

— William Shakespeare

Necessity, mother of invention.

— William Wycherley

“Necessity breeds solution.”

— Anne McCaffrey

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

— Mason Cooley

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beauty is a social necessity.

— James Goldsmith

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.

— William Pitt The Younger

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

— Yann Martel

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

— Desmond Tutu

My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.

— Porter Robinson

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

— Anne Carson

“There is no necessity to accept the undesirable.”

— Steven Redhead

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to…

— Stephen Hough

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit…

— Thales

“It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Stop living for necessity and it’s time to live for your wishes. For me, the journey is more important than the destination.”

— Vivek Thangaswamy

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

— Brenda Laurel

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

— Jean Toomer

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason…

— William Shakespeare

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it…

— Baruch Spinoza

Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity.…

— Michael Ignatieff

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was…

— Joel Edgerton

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be…

— Raymond Chandler

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against…

— Sigmund Freud

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is…

— Kathleen Wynne

“...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain…

— Immanuel Kant

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl…

— William Safire

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic…

— Walter Pater

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

— Plato

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

— Ashraf Ghani

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

— Jessica Zafra

“Realise that there is no necessity to always be serious.”

— Steven Redhead

Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.

— Anne Rice

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”

— S. M. Stirling

“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.”

— Italo Calvino

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe