I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Annie DillardTags: passion calling necessity vocation
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
Orson Scott CardTags: freedom service necessity ender
There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.
Hugh MacLennanTags: necessity tragedy understanding irony
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational causality necessity chance naturalism darwinism luck causation cause-and-effect kalam-cosmological-argument serendipity
Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
Sigurd F. OlsonTags: necessity wilderness
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.
Nelson AlgrenTags: judge writers necessity responsibilty
To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."
[American Libraries Magazine, May 28, 2009]
Tags: libraries necessity information
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew ScullyTags: animals animal-rights evil necessity meat animal-welfare factory-farms carnism
Listen. There is a sound like the knocking of railway trucks in a siding. That is the happy concatenation of one event following another in our lives. Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up — sober, merciful word which we pretend to revile, which we press tight to our hearts, without which we should be undone. How we worship that sound like the knocking together of trucks in a siding!
Virginia WoolfTags: necessity
En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect.
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.
Tags: science experience necessity rule generalizations
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