You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn’t find anybody to deliver it correctly.
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
You’ll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn’t.
I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
I think it’s become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can’t get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity – but necessity is the mother of invention.
Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late ’40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
Innovation is a necessity.
One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.
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.
War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation’s children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.
I’ve always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work – the rest is style.
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
I can’t read all the books I want to read, I can’t watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it’s a necessity I’m obliged to fulfill.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Using a smartphone for long hours is stressful, bad for the eyes and overall health. But a smartphone is a necessity today. You cannot do without it.
I said Donald Trump could never be elected, confidently fueled by the empirical data of professional polling, a certainty in the vital necessity of field operations, and the knowledge his own campaign team (even on the night of the election) was ratting out the shambolic train wreck his campaign had been. I was wrong.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Sometimes, when you’re building a company, out of necessity there’s just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.
Jewelry isn’t a necessity, but sometimes it can bring out my fashion. Sometimes if I’m wearing very dark clothes, like darker colored, black, anything like that, and I put white jewelry on top, it look crazy because it’s like, the contrast of the diamonds and the dark clothes.
The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition.
We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we’ve given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn’t advocate it any other way.
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
One of the key lessons I learned at Netflix was the necessity of focus.
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.
The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.
My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation.
The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these – it’s a state of mind.
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
