People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
~By Ray Charles ~
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~By Max Eastman ~
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
~By David Brainerd ~
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
~By Democritus ~
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 growing up in great ignorance.
~By John Strachan ~
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
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 decisions until 2002.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Necessity does the work of courage.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
~By Phyllis George ~
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
~By Maimonides ~
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~By Albert Einstein ~
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
~By Mary McAleese ~
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
~By Robert Fripp ~
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
~By Larry Wall ~
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
~By Karl Marx ~
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
~By Maya Angelou ~
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
~By John Irving ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
~By Anthony Crosland ~
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
~By Mark Twain ~
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
~By John Adams ~
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
~By Will Eisner ~
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~By Lord Byron ~
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
~By Emma Goldman ~
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~By Sophocles ~
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
~By John Betjeman ~
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
~By Fred Hoyle ~
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
~By Pindar ~
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
~By Ida Tarbell ~
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
~By Emma Goldman ~
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
~By Bruce Barton ~
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 State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
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 aren't a necessity.
~By Donald C. Medeiros ~
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
~By Alex Campbell ~
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
~By Steven Brust ~
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
~By James Payn ~
Necessity has the face of a dog.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
~By Robert Shea ~
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
~By Walter Salles ~
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
~By Leon Edel ~
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
~By George McClellan ~
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
~By William of Occam ~
The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
~By Bernard Barton ~
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
~By Lincoln Kirstein ~
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
~By Bern Williams ~
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
~By Josiah Warren ~
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.
~By Jack Bowman ~
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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 process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
~By Walter Salles ~
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
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 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
~By John Moody ~
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
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