Quotes of: Necessities Keyword

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

Zosia Mamet

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

Bernard Barton

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Legend

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

Leaders' Watchwords

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

Seraphina

In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.

Villains by Necessity

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Norman Mailer

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Plato

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

Robert Fripp

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Larry Wall

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

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

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Jo Bonner

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Julie Brown

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

William Lyon Mackenzie King