Necessity Quotes

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Just like a heart break is required to know the importance of 'LOVE'. Similarly, sometimes failure is required to know the importance of 'SUCCESS.' — Ayush Aggarwal
You need knowledge and understanding to sharpen your wisdom. — Ofosu Kwarteng Davis
I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't… — Anjelica Huston
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. — Martin H Fischer
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. — Jack Bowman
Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they… — Donald C Medeiros
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the… — Robert Motherwell
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49… — John Moody
There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to… — Clint Walker
The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final… — Jenny Shipley
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the… — Benjamin Tucker
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. — Walter Salles
What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval — Mark Twain
Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History,… — Eugene Ionesco
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a… — Samuel D. Warren
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child… — Unknown Author
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. — Alfred North Whitehead
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity — William Shakespeare
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. — Plato
Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger
Necessity teaches all things — German Proverb
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws — Michel De Montaigne
Necessity, the tyrant's plea — John Milton
It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity. — Benjamin Franklin

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