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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

Quotes by Willy Ley

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

Quotes by William of Occam

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

Quotes by Walter Salles

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Quotes by Veerappa Moily

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

Quotes by Tom Tancredo

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Quotes by Thomas Clarkson

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Quotes by Theophile Gautier

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

Quotes by Thales

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

Quotes by T. S. Kalyanaraman

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Quotes by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

Quotes by Sam Graves

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.

Quotes by Salmon P. Chase

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Quotes by Sallust

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Quotes by Saint Augustine

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.

Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how one sliver works is really hard.

Quotes by Robert Sapolsky

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

Quotes by Robert Fripp

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

Quotes by Robert Creeley

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

Quotes by Robert Battle

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Quotes by Robert Benchley

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

Quotes by Richard Owen

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable alternatives to the use of force.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Gender parity in management is a necessity.

Quotes by Richard Edelman

Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it.

Quotes by Rajnath Singh

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

Quotes by Pranav Mistry

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Quotes by Pindar

I faded away for a while out of necessity.

Quotes by Phoebe Snow

The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

Quotes by Paige Craig

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Pablo Picasso

Necessity has no law.

Quotes by Oliver Cromwell

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Quotes by Odilon Redon

Necessity does the work of courage.

Quotes by Nicholas M. Butler

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.

Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

In one way or another, all my songs are about the necessity for trust.

Quotes by Michael McDonald

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Quotes by Max Eastman

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper

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.

Quotes by Martin Chemnitz

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

One of the key lessons I learned at Netflix was the necessity of focus.

Quotes by Marc Randolph

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Quotes by Man Ray

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

Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Quotes by Lincoln Kirstein

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Quotes by Leon Trotsky

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Quotes by Leon Edel

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Quotes by Karl Marx

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Jules Verne

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

Jules Verne

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

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.

Quotes by John Strachan

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

Quotes by John Moody

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

Quotes by John McCain

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.

Quotes by John Lawson

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quotes by John Adams

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.

Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

Quotes by Jenny Shipley

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

Quotes by Jean-Marie Messier

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

Quotes by Jason Alexander

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.

Quotes by Jan Morris

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.

Quotes by Jacques Lacan

Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. In many ways, this was beneficial. People ate fresh, seasonal foods that were naturally flavorful and nutritious, and farmers and communities prospered.

Quotes by Homaro Cantu

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.

Quotes by Hjalmar Schacht

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

Quotes by Henry Petroski

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Quotes by Grover Cleveland

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.

Quotes by Giovanni Agnelli

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Quotes by George Farquhar

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Quotes by George B. McClellan

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

Quotes by Gary Sherman

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Quotes by Friedrich Engels

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Quotes by Francis Quarles

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Quotes by Euripides

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.

Quotes by Ernst Mach

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

Quotes by Erik Prince

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Quotes by Edward Bellamy

There ought to be a law against necessity.

Quotes by E. Y. Harburg

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Quotes by David Whyte

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Quotes by Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Quotes by Daniel Defoe

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.

Quotes by Clint Walker

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Quotes by Christopher Buckley

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Quotes by Charles Ives

Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

Innovation is a necessity.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

Quotes by Camille Perri

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Quotes by Bruce Barton

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Quotes by Bruce Beresford

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

Quotes by Bob Hoskins

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Quotes by Bill Watterson

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