Necessities Quotes
192 quotes by 163 authors
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
— Hannah Arendt
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
— Cher
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and…
— Jimmy Carter
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we…
— Jimmy Carter
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In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all…
— Oskar Schlemmer
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Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not…
— Adolf Hitler
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
— Joseph Conrad
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Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
— Samuel Johnson
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The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
— Samuel Johnson
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