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Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity
— Henry B. Eyring
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
— Cathleen Schine
Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.
— Oprah Winfrey
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
— Angela Merici
There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?
— Ayn Rand
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
— Albert Einstein
Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.
— Peter Mayle
Necessity is very often the mother of romance.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
— Wendell Berry
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
— Jack Bowman
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
— Wallace Stevens
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
— Robert Shea
As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime.
— S. Hussain Zaidi
Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.
— Dean Koontz
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
— Steven Weinberg
Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.
— Pamela Morsi
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
— Eric Sevareid
I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
— Cherrie Moraga
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
— Pythagoras
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
— Bill Watterson
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
— Coco Chanel
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
Necessity, mother of invention.
— William Wycherley
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
— William Faulkner
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
— Sallust
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
— Ivan Illich
Power is the recognition of necessity.
— Abraham Rotstein
We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.
— R.C. Sproul
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
— Steve Pavlina
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
— Henry David Thoreau
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G.Wells
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
— Seneca The Younger
A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
— David Gates
I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity
— Emery Lord
Take the necessary steps needed to reach your goals
— Sunday Adelaja
Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.
— George Washington
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
— Larry Wall
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
— Arthur Erickson
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
— Benjamin Franklin
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
— Chaim Potok
His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.
— China Mieville
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
— Joseph Joubert
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
— John Betjeman
Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
— Rita Mae Brown
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
— Philip Sidney
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
— Will Self
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
— Honore De Balzac
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
— Charles Darwin
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
— St. Jerome
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
— Pablo Picasso
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
— Ellen Glasgow
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
Chance and necessity.
— Jacques Monod
Necessity is the author of change.
— Tim Hansel
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
— Louisa May Alcott
If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.
— Burnett Hillman Streeter
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
— Pythagoras
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
— George Santayana
The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare
That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
— Democritus
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When
— Adam Smith
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
— Pope Leo XIII
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
— Samuel Adams
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
— Larry Wall
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
— A.J. Quinnell
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
— George B. McClellan
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
— Jean Monnet
Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.
— Arnold Bennett
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.
— Bob Hoskins
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.
— Walter E. Williams
Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
— William Of Ockham
You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
— Dean Koontz