Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. — Jose Rizal
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays… — John Updike
The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity. — Benigno Aquino III
I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes… — Pierce Brosnan
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force… — Michael Ignatieff
Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times… — Michael Ignatieff
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is… — David Belle
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing… — Amy Bloom
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are… — Levi Woodbury
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity… — Joel Edgerton
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence… — Leon Bourgeois
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution. — Henry Petroski
Necessity does the work of courage. — Nicholas M. Butler
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger von Oech
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. — John McCain
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows… — Elizabeth George
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided… — William Petty
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. — Henri Poincare
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are… — John Strachan
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization. — Robert Shea
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of… — Salmon P. Chase
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the… — Walter Salles

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