Necessity Quotes

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

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.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

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.

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.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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 see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

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.

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.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

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.

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.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

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.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.