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...

The superfluous is very necessary.

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

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.

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

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

In consequence of Darwin’s reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a non-miraculous history of the development of the human race. … If any person feels...

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

I did not grasp all these details – and many more – right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire...

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a...

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.

The ongoing tension between different religious traditions points to the necessity of deepening our relations with neighbors of other faiths, moving beyond dialogue to active collaboration in areas of common concern.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

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.

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

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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...

En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l’expérience, if faut généraliser; c’est une nécessité qui s’impose à l’observateur le plus circonspect.In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is...

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

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.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ambassador Holbrooke will convey to the authorities in Belgrade the necessity for full compliance with all of their commitments to the international community and for maximum restraint in the period leading up to the March...

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

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.

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

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...

Convergence is not a trend, it’s a necessity. To maintain a competitive lead in exotic technologies takes a lot, so a lot of key devices are driven by the consumer market because that market offers...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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.

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...

We had some young guys out there playing on Sunday, mostly out of necessity and partially out of it’s that time of the year where they have to stand up and be accountable, and they...

Evolution is necessity of time.

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

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...

Quilting has evolved. It’s still evolving. It’s gone from necessity into visual arts…

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

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...

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

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

…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.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there’s willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law.

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

[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...

If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. And we’re cooperating like never before.

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...