If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. — Christie Brinkley Copy Share Image
The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel 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
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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The importance of a good Friend in our life is Just like the importance of our single Heartbeat! It's not visible ,But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Necessity is simply a prioritised task, while choices are usually unnecessary and playful in nature.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“the decision to move forward—despite the sheer improbability of success—was not an elective one; it was a matter of necessity.” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
How much better company is offered by the working wife who out of sheer necessity must keep on her toes mentally and… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out. — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“Necessity is the mother of invention. She’s also my mother, though Invention and I have different dads.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As you become older in life...you will come to recognize that you are either just a convenience or a need in other… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it. — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with. — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
