necessity Quotes

“‘Rope!’ muttered Sam. ‘I knew I’d want it, if I hadn’t got it!’”

“Eat bread, oh Enkidu! It is the conformity of life, of the conditions and the fate of the land.”

“Mrs. Ramsay saw, realizing his extreme anxiety about himself, would, in her own way, see that he was taken care of, and praise him, somehow or other. But she wished it was not necessary: perhaps it was her fault that it was necessary.”

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

“We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.′ ‘What is that, grandmother?’ ‘To understand other people.‘”

“She taught me this above all else: things which don’t shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth.”

“We need hope as much as we need bread and...”

“They can pretend that every act was forced on them under emergency and that every decision was mothered by necessity”

For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

“Well! Joe pursued, “somebody must keep the pot a-biling, Pip, or the pot won’t bile, don’t you know?”

“It was necessary for me to have been banished from the presence of Miss Cunegonde, to have afterwards run the gauntlet, and now it is necessary I should beg my bread until I learn to earn it; all this cannot be otherwise.”

“liberty is consistent with absolute necessity, for it was necessary we should be free; for, in short, the determinate will----”