#necessity

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #equally #mob #monarch #necessity

There ought to be a law against necessity. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#law #necessity #ought

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #circumstances #elected #myth #necessity

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. ↗

— James Hillman

#calls #drop #fulfill #i #i wonder

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#anything #better #directing #ever #far

Necessity has the face of a dog. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#face #necessity

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#been #bonds #break #could #country

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#delight #had #necessity #only #pleasure

Necessity has no law. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#necessity