Necessity Quotes · Page 16

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

— Anonymous

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place…

— Victor Hugo

Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity -…

— Ed Davey

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

— Cathleen Schine

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”

— Dante Alighieri

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

— Jacob Dalton

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of…

— Ludwig Quidde

Being in the profession of acting, I definitely have to be a people's person and socialise when it's an absolute necessity.

— Lara Dutta

For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.

— Denise Bidot

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is…

— Roger L'Estrange

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no…

— Richard N. Haass

If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading…

— Nomy Arpaly

“Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our…

— Robert Wolfe

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only…

— Steven Brust

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I really enjoy tech, but I'm not voracious - I'll find stuff because I want to use it, not because I'm interested…

— KT Tunstall

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my…

— Agnetha Faltskog

“... "the historical necessity of development" -- you can spout that nonsense about anything and you'll always be right.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

— Susan B. Anthony

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

— Virgil

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not,…

— Amy Bloom

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are…

— Richard N. Haass

“Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family…

— Anonymous

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

— Thomas Paine

“Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.”

— steven redhead

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!

— Monica Denise Brown

The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to…

— Benigno Aquino III

“All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness…

— Sunday Adelaja

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

— Walter Salles

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then…

— Nell Scovell

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,”

— Paul Scott

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

— Keith Richards

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

— Millard Fillmore

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

— Christie Brinkley

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

— Ernie J Zelinski