94 Quotes About Necessity

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"" In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water. Elizabeth Bear

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light. Criss Jami

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me–to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools. Orson Scott Card

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. F. Scott Fitzgerald

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival. Criss Jami

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. I.M. Pei

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’. Dada Bhagwan

My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it. Marty Rubin

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. Eric Chaisson

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism... Eric Chaisson

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die. Dan Groat

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money. Richie Norton

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity. Debasish Mridha

The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary. Kamand Kojouri

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Annie Dillard

In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay. Marty Rubin

Ability and necessity dwell near each other. Pythagoras

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity. Unknown

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists? Such balderdash takes various forms, but it is at its worst when it is religious. Why should this be so? What is there in religion that completely flabbergasts the wits of those who believe in it? I see no logical necessity for that flabbergasting. Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. In other fields such hypotheses are common, and yet they do no apparent damage to those who incline to them. But in the religious field they quickly rush the believer to the intellectual Bad Lands. He not only becomes anaesthetic to objective fact; he becomes a violent enemy of objective fact. It annoys and irritates him. He sweeps it away as something somehow evil.. H.l. Mencken

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do. Marty Rubin

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success Phillip Gary Smith

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity. Max McKeown

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. Evan D.G. Fraser

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life. Jonathan Edwards

Fewer the necessities, better your life will be. Dada Bhagwan

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk. A.J. Darkholme

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury. Abhijit Naskar

Reality cannot breathe without imagination. Lionel Suggs

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us. Steven Redhead

To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity! Israelmore Ayivor

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you! Israelmore Ayivor

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? Ronald J. Sider

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113) Prem Prakash

Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life. Debasish Mridha

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. M.C. Humphreys

The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility. Farshad Asl

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. Nelson Algren

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity Ika Natassa

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? Matthew Scully

He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary. Thomm Quackenbush

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them. Hugh MacLennan

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must take the lead with principles for its judgments according to constant laws and compel nature to answer its questions, rather than letting nature guide its movements by keeping reason, as it were, in leading-strings; for otherwise accidental observations, made according to no previously designed plan, can never connect up into a necessary law, which is yet what reason seeks and requires. Reason, in order to be taught by nature, must approach nature with its principles in one hand, according to which alone the agreement among appearances can count as laws, and, in the other hand, the experiments thought in accordance with these principles - yet in order to be instructed by nature not like a pupil, who has recited to him whatever the teacher wants to say, but like an appointed judge who compels witnesses to answer the questions he puts to them. Thus even physics owes the advantageous revolution in its way of thinking to the inspiration that what reason would not be able to know of itself and has to learn from nature, it has to seek in the latter (though not merely ascribe to it) in accordance with what reason itself puts into nature. This is how natural science was first brought to the secure course of a science after groping about for so many centuries. Immanuel Kant

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need. Rachel Hartman

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? Johnny Rich

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless. Michael Bassey Johnson

Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless. A.J. Darkholme

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy. Haruki Murakami

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it. Dean Koontz

To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it Sunday Adelaja

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. William Shakespeare

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father. Jeffrey Fry

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. Augustine Of Hippo

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings. Dean Koontz

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. Frank Herbert

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do. Dean Koontz

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things. Criss Jami

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] Dante Alighieri

Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized Sunday Adelaja

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow… Lenore Kandel

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time–inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. Alain De Botton

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed? . Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only those who can move swiftly over vast stretches of ground may hope to survive. The speed, the whorls and torrents of movement, are in plain fact the mountain's own necessity. But their grace is not necessity. Or if it is - if the swoop, the parabola, the arrow-flight of hooves and wings achieve their beauty by strict adherence to the needs of function - so much the more is the mountain's integrity vindicated. Beauty is not adventitious but essential. Nan Shepherd

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many r Jon Bing

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. John McCain

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Euripides

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. Martin Farquhar Tupper

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. Louis LAmour

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Saint Augustine

Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Friedrich Engels