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 ~
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~By James K. Polk ~
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
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 ~
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
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 ~
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
~By James Hillman ~
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 ~
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
Good writers are of necessity rare.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
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 ~
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
~By Leon Edel ~
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Necessity has the face of a dog.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
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 ~
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
~By Roger von Oech ~
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
~By John Lawson ~
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
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 ~
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
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 ~
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
~By Jan Morris ~
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
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 ~
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
~By Francis Quarles ~
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
~By Giovanni Agnelli ~
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
~By John Irving ~
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
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 all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
~By Jones Very ~
The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
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 do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.
~By Clint Walker ~
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
~By Euripides ~
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 ~
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 to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
~By William Petty ~
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 ~
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.
~By Nelson Algren ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
~By Enrico Caruso ~
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
~By Bill Watterson ~
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
~By Edward Bellamy ~
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
~By Sallust ~
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Necessity never made a good bargain.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Necessity... the mother of invention.
~By Plato ~
Necessity does the work of courage.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~By Sophocles ~
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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 ~
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 ~
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
~By Lincoln Kirstein ~
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 ~
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
~By Larry Wall ~
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
~By Anthony Crosland ~
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
~By Walter Salles ~
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~By Odilon Redon ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
~By Felix Bloch ~
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
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