Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation. — Brian Solis
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I… — Elizabeth Smart
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery,… — Mercedes Ruehl
Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward… — Eberhard Arnold
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that… — Eric Chaisson
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone. — Mason Cooley
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and… — Samuel Johnson
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity. — Roger Wolcott Sperry
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. — Angela Merici
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling… — T.C. Boyle
Poetry is a necessity of life, — C.D. Wright
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute… — Peter Abelard
Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His… — Jonathan Cahn
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in… — Richard Fortey
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. — Sonia Johnson
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing… — Gioachino Rossini
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. — Carolyn Wells
I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women… — Zach Braff
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.… — Albert Schweitzer
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul

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