Music for me is an emotional necessity. It's therapy. It's what I live and breathe. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.” — Johan Coetzer Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Necessary is necessary when u need it, but necessary is also UN-necessary if you don't need it — Prakash Reddy Copy Share Image
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.” — Wittgenstein Ludwig Copy Share Image
“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.” — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
