Necessities Quotes

192 Necessities quotes by 162 unique authors

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For… — Frank Herbert
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you… — Jeannette Walls
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is… — E F Schumacher
‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat… — Thomas Jefferson
Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and… — Elisabeth Elliot
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some… — B.F. Skinner
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a… — Epicurus
so few in reality are the true necessities of man — Nikos Kazantzakis
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In… — Julian Barnes
The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe… — John Wesley
Invention is the mother of necessities. — Marshall McLuhan
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. — Plutarch
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then… — Erich Fromm
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit. — Michael Josephson
Money is a lubricant. It lets you "slide" through life instead of having to "scrape" by. Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want ,… — T. Harv Eker
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in… — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of… — Walt Whitman
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the… — Edmund Burke
I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money… — Michael Sandel
Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked,… — Alexa Von Tobel
The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

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