Necessity Quotes · Page 8

Necessity, mother of invention.

— William Wycherley

Beauty is a social necessity.

— James Goldsmith

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

— Mason Cooley

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

— Benjamin Franklin

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

— Simon Blackburn

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

— Vittorio Alfieri

The gods do not fight against necessity.

— Simonides of Ceos

Letting go isn't easy, but it's necessary

— Anonymous

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

— Saint Augustine

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

— Bernard Williams

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

— Theophile Gautier

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

— Paul Klee

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride.

— Anonymous

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

— Jason Alexander

Necessary is necessary when u need it, but necessary is also UN-necessary if you don't need it

— Prakash Reddy

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

— Norman Mailer

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

— Epictetus

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

— Clyde Tombaugh

“Once you buddy up to killers you cannot allow yourself to take their criminality too seriously. You become yourself an apologist for…

— J.R.Nyquist

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative…

— Pierce Brosnan

I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have…

— Joel Madden

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes…

— Sri Chinmoy

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There…

— Chiang Kai-shek

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the…

— Walter Salles

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with…

— Eva Longoria

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our…

— Ban Ki-moon

And nature must obey necessity.

— William Shakespeare

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

— Joseph Joubert

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

Necessity does everything well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

— Sophocles

Stern is the visage of necessity.

— Friedrich Schiller

Necessity creates everything in my life.

— Christian Louboutin

Necessity is stronger than duty.

— Seneca the Younger