Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger Copy Share Image
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“... "the historical necessity of development" -- you can spout that nonsense about anything and you'll always be right.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising… — Chip Giller Copy Share Image
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Have the courage and discipline today to do what is needed instead of simply what is convenient. Or as Pablo Picasso once… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“In the same way, we have to inform the multitude that restoration comes at a price. Suppose we give them an intimation… — Richard Weaver Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“This necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the reciprocal blessing of which, would supersede,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image