All Quotes

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.
‐‐ Thales

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
‐‐ Sallust

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
‐‐ Roger von Oech

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

Necessity never made a good bargain.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

Necessity, the mother of invention.
‐‐ George Farquhar

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
‐‐ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Need is not quite belief.
‐‐ Anne Sexton

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
‐‐ Henri Poincare

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.
‐‐ Hillary Scott

Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
‐‐ Abe Fortas

Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.
‐‐ Jose Rodriguez

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.
‐‐ Gray Scott

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

Negative campaigning is wrong.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
‐‐ Matthieu Ricard

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
‐‐ Harold Stephen Black

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
‐‐ Hugh Prather

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
‐‐ Os Guinness

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Negative politics have always been around.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
‐‐ Lamar Odom

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
‐‐ David D. Burns

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Negativity doesn't help me.
‐‐ David Ortiz

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
‐‐ David Lynch