Quotes about need page 21
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Source: Queen of Dreams
Richard J. Foster (1942) American Quaker theologian
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
“We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe”
Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
Maya Angelou book Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
“Hey Kaname. Will you let me handle this?
Of course. I need only one Ichijo. You.”
Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist
Source: Vampire Knight, Vol. 9
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
There's Treasure Everywhere
“Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: No, the less I see them the better i like them.
Source: Women
Andrew Solomon book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Source: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“You need to learn patience, you grasshopper”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer
Source: The Journey Home
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”
Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986) Canadian poet and novelist
Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
Bernhard Schlink book The Reader
Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader
“What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn’t may be”
Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) Argentinian poet
“Leadership is what you need to learn next”
Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Variant: We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Piers Anthony book Centaur Aisle
Source: Centaur Aisle
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“You turned your back on me when I needed you.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Awakening / The Struggle
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.”
Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965), p. 55 and Back Cover
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005)
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Variant: Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/ <br class="br">Context: The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth — and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial.<br>And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...