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...

…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...

We suffer more from choice than from necessity.

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for...

Necessity, the mother of invention.

I wrote the play out of necessity,

The two main issues are security and the necessity for an inclusive election.

She said, “You’re a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?””In compassion. Because of necessity.” Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar’s hands. “The same way you carry water.

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is...

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.

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Peace at any prices appears to be a necessity. I won’t say it’s a good deal, but it’s a necessity.

Don’t know yet. Sometimes it’s out of necessity that you play a freshman right away. Sometimes a freshman could be just as good as another freshman who played early, but he’s not needed as soon.

To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

If I had four guards like this again, I would do it. But this was really born out of necessity.

We needed an official study. It is a necessity to budget to improve the alleys.

Reality cannot breathe without imagination.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

We spent a lot of time looking backward, and that was out of necessity. What has taken place is we’ve worked very diligently and hard collectively, our staff and our players, to define exactly what...

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.”[American Libraries...

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

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...

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?

For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don’t care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy...

You can’t put a time-table on anybody. Sometimes it’s necessity. Sometime it’s the right circumstance. But I’m fairly confident that you’re going to see all of them eventually. That talent in these guys is just...

Here you’ll find everything you don’t need—and much less!

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you’re good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if...

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.

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...

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms...

I don’t see it as a necessity to run them.

Most of man’s finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

With the disappearance of the Ebony Student Association, the Black Student Union was a necessity.

I like curiosity. It’s a mind game, not a necessity.

Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

You do what you have to do. That’s who you seem to be to me, anyway. You’re one who does what he has to do.

It’s almost a necessity. It just makes things go much faster.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.