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.
Fred Hoyle
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt The Younger
Necessity is the author of change.
Tim Hansel
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger Von Oech
Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
Necessity knows no law.
Publilius Syrus
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
Dame Rose Macaulay
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
Benedict Spinoza
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
We don't know what his intent is one way or the other. Certainly any business has a necessity of planning for its own future. That's his business, so we have really no reaction to that one way or the other.
Fred Nation
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
Brand Blanshard
When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity. But now it?s increasingly all about the individual. This leaves people more isolated and likely to contemplate suicide.
Mafumi Usui
The absolute necessity is diversity has to be in portfolios.
Bud Kasper
When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity, like sharing a bath or eating together, and the community was much more important, especially in rural communities.
Mafumi Usui
We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.
Craig Fields
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
John Kotter
Necessity has no law.
William Langland
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
We don't just ride, we work and condition our horses. So an indoor arena is an absolute necessity in North Iowa.
Brenda Wendt
We have three judges who serve Comal and Hays counties, and we're coming up on the necessity in our view for another district court for Comal County.
Jack Robinson
We need to acknowledge explicitly that we are dealing with people, even when, of necessity, we must classify people into groups for convenience.
Neil Higgs
Being the coach for both is definitely more of a demand, but it is a necessity. I am here one way or another. So we might as well have a cross country [team] so we can start to build a program with a balanced [track and field] team.
Stephanie Scalessa
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.
John Wagstaff
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One has to understand the reality of why the fund was set up. It was not an act of compassion. It was an act of legal necessity because they curtailed our right to sue the airlines.
Charles Wolf
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
Derby Brown
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.
Lincoln Kirstein
I explained to the prime minister [Asgrimsson] that for the Czech Republic it was no choice, but necessity.
Vaclav Klaus
There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.
Cristina Correa
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
John Mccain
But this may help boost people's awareness of the necessity of energy saving. We sometimes have to launch this kind of dare. Otherwise we cannot achieve tough goals.
Masanori Shishido
We haven't been sold on the necessity of this.
Chris Wilson
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine Of Hippo
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Jones Very
Your cell phone is an absolute necessity, so you kind of feel naked without it.
Heath Schroyer
Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life.
Stephen Meyer
There hasn't been the necessity to do that before. The environment is going to get highly competitive this year.
Jack Mccabe
We really see this as a way to liberate classrooms from the necessity of providing one-to-many communication.
Frank Moretti
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincare
With the disappearance of the Ebony Student Association, the Black Student Union was a necessity.
Bryant Johnson
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.
Will Eisner
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton
I got this through our brokerage. We all have them. It's really a necessity because it helps you stay in touch. Communication is the point, isn't it?
Scott Armstrong
To be competitive, in the resort and hospitality industry, the spa has become a necessity. It used to be considered a loss leader, but now it's a profit center for hotels .
Susie Ellis
What this latest incidence underscores is the necessity of increased support for local law enforcement to aid improving our border security. If this doesn't open D.C.'s eyes, I don't know what will.
Rick Glancey
That which necessity compels she excuses.
Legal Maxim
It's not just being clean and green. It's a necessity in Connecticut. We need over 1,000 new megawatts this year.
Daniel Donovan
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
R. D. Hitchcock
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky
I don't understand the necessity of clearing us out for demolition to begin in the height of the season.
Mike Sheldon
Access to the Internet today is as much a necessity of life as the more traditional services and should be available to all.
Jonathan Baltuch
Our next vacation means much more to us than a new car, and we would never sacrifice the former for the latter except in a case of dire necessity.
Mireille Guiliano
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
William A. Foster
We would question the necessity of an expense like that.
Richard Vespucci
That would be a mistake (to play), a big mistake, but like I said, if it's a necessity, I'd do it, ... It would be if there were no defensive tackles (available). That would be the reason.
Kevin Brown
The Internet is no longer something that's nice to have — it's a necessity. How many people have encyclopedias in their homes nowadays? You don't. You use the Internet.
Phillip Bertolini
My cell phone is pretty much a necessity - sometimes a pain but a necessity.
Sandra Moore
And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.
Wayne Newton
We can find the water, we're not sweating the water. It's just being able to have something to transport water to the fire and put the fire out that's a necessity.
Bruce Wilkerson
So little of the anatomy is preserved that these fossils do not teach us much new about chimpanzee anatomical evolution. There is no logical necessity why chimps had to remain in the forest.
Sally Mcbrearty
So there is some necessity that we share our advancements, as well as benefit from the collaboration ourselves.
Bill Stone
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead
If it was not an absolute necessity and they used it I think parents would be upset. I know I would be upset if it were my grandchild.
Linda Wagner
Those are just a real necessity.
John Dillon
It was more of a necessity than anything else. We were trying to reduce our expenses and improve our bottom line for Louisiana Dental Plan.
Ryan Jumonville
It's not just a road for pleasure, but it's a necessity.
Bryan Moore
There doesn't appear to be the same degree of necessity to move into safe and liquid investments such as you were seeing last week.
Kevin Flanagan
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
Steve Swallow
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
There would be no cancellation ever from Lorraine that would be anything less than some sort of personal necessity.
John Harbison
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
Walter Lippmann
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Lincoln Kirstein
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah
It is essential that those in charge of the football industry realize that addressing racial equality is a necessity, not an option.
Trevor Phillips
The perimeter firewall is a necessity.
Raphael Reich
We had to be innovative. They say necessity is the mother of invention.
Dave Jackson
It’s out of necessity, really, ... We’ve got to go with what we’ve got.
Scott Ford
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman Mailer
I wrote the play out of necessity.
John Mighton
It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The two main issues are security and the necessity for an inclusive election.
Adnan Pachachi
The larger a bank gets, by necessity controls have to increase. You can't operate hundreds of branches and let each branch do their own thing. Some things will have to be adjusted.
Donald Flatt
I'm skeptical that the tone of the conference call ... was anything other than an act of necessity on the company's part to keep investors around.
Michael Schroeder
We had such information that a raid was a necessity.
Arne Ljungqvist
If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be its father.
Carl Stoddard
You've got to wonder what the necessity is for cars if people can't afford them. It just seems ludicrous.
Judith Collins
A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.
Jackie Miller
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert Motherwell
We didn't mean to hurt anybody by doing what we did. We did it out of necessity for financial reasons. Anybody who helped out will be paid back in full.
Kris Everson
They're going to have to. With the pressure that front four is getting, some teams are going to say it's a necessity. Washington stuck to it; they did a good job.
Brian Goldberg
We saw it as a necessity that insurance wouldn't cover.
Dirck Reichard
One-third of the new homes sold this year will be at 3,000 square feet. At 4,000 square feet, automation almost becomes a necessity, not a luxury.
Jonathan Gaw
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton Warner
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To make a virtue of necessity.
Roman Proverb
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey
Blacks began to sing out of necessity because they couldn't speak. We wanted to honor that.
Linda Wilson
The idea to do town houses came out of necessity. This development was originally designed to have a commercial use on the ground floor, but we decided there really was no market for that in this area.
Robert Siegel
Pulling together is a reality and a necessity these days. These communities will have to put aside their internal competitiveness to deal with the real competition in the global economy.
Emily Derocco
We see this as a positive and a necessity given that the scope and complexity of Wal-Mart's U.S. business is too broad for a single executive to oversee anymore.
Emme Kozloff
We'll see (the defense ministry) report, and their findings can be the basis for an investigation if there is a necessity for that.
Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas
It's just almost becoming a necessity.
Ernie Slottag
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
Ernest Mandel
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