#necessity

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. ↗

— Ray Charles

#already #arrived #blood #born #food

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#god #love #necessity

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 Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#narrative #necessity #never #pattern #wants

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice. ↗

— Enrico Caruso

#constantly #forced #i #i remember #impressed

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#almighty #almighty god #believed #considerate #constitution

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#always #beware #everything #flashy #himself

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#deep #examination #may #necessity #self-deception

There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin'. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religon, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person'll do in an individious situation. ↗

— Eve Forward Villains By Necessity

#fantasy #fiction #villains-by-necessity #jealousy

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attempts #because #cannot #does #free