Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Physical contact is a human necessity.
Necessity knows no Sunday.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.
Being independent. . . is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.