The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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.
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.