Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully
I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity. — Stephenie Meyer
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue,… — Diana Gabaldon
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of… — C.S. Lewis
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson
... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. — Malcolm X
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity… — Jack London
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are… — Alain de Botton
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. — Jules Verne
…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. — Louisa May Alcott
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity,… — Ayn Rand
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in… — A. Lee Martinez
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. — Victor Hugo
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the… — Jesse Ball
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when… — Haruki Murakami
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. — Victor Hugo
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper

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