Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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.
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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.
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.
The best charity to serve humanity is just a person's simplicity of living with his basic necessity
