Pastoral Resources

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.