Necessity Quotes

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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. — Stephen Gardiner
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you… — Bob Hoskins
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very… — Arne Jacobsen
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what… — Nicole Krauss
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of… — Frederic Bastiat
From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose… — Thomas Jefferson
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone;… — Michel Foucault
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. — Erykah Badu
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. — Twyla Tharp
I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. — Rachel Hartman
The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was. — Rachel Hartman
The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But… — Rebecca Wells
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless… — Calvin Coolidge
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone… — Al-Ghazali
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. — Peter Farb
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of… — Jones Very
Necessity is stronger than duty. — Seneca the Younger
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. — Seneca the Younger
Stern is the visage of necessity. — Friedrich Schiller
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love.… — Earl A Grollman
No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and… — Henry C. Link
The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have. — Ernie J Zelinski

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