Necessity Quotes

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All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives. — Evelyn Underhill
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him… — Margaret Cavendish
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for… — Unknown Author
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there… — Albert Schweitzer
We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity — Henry B. Eyring
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our… — Robert Grudin
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an… — Rajneesh
Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no… — Rajneesh
Marriage is a hell, but sometimes people need it. What to do? So I have to tell them to get into marriage. They need to… — Rajneesh
There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or… — Ernest Holmes
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. — P T Barnum
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural… — Paul Hawken
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else.… — John Berger
David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses a… — Robert Jay Lifton
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure,… — George Dantzig
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2.… — Alfred P. Sloan
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance… — Wilhelm Wundt
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a… — Frederic Farrar
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that… — Blaise Pascal

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