Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Quotes about need page 19
“sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”
Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories
Source: Thanks for the Memories
“With great power comes a great need to take a nap.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Variant: With great power... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later
Source: The Last Olympian
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Broken Wings
“The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Fall of Night
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
John Irving book Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer
Source: The Edge of Desire
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Context: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. … Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
“Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Source: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five
Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist
Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 11
“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) British writer, lecturer and philosopher
“We were watching Barrons.
Why were you watching Barrons?
Barrons needs watching.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
Tim Daly (1956) American actor, director and producer
“When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.”
Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist
“I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute
“I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Complete Short Stories
“Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: My Fair Godmother
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Context: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
“Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You’re my indication that I’m doing what I need to do.”
Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger
Source: Brave Enough
“More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer
Variant: We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Source: Leadership Is an Art
“My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed”
Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) Congressional Gold Medal recipient
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader
Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000