Quotes about need
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Greg Behrendt photo

“First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Men
Rachel Cohn photo

“Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Source: Riding Shotgun

Love, Women, Men, Feeling
Bryan Lee O'Malley photo

“I need some kind of… like… last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness

David Levithan photo

“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Time
Nicholas Sparks photo

“Besides, every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Strong

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Blood and Grits

World
Julia Quinn photo

“He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

Love
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time
Bill Maher photo

“We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

People, Country
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: No Mercy

Suicide, Waiting
Julia Child photo

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

Julia Child My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

Friendship, People
Rick Riordan photo

“The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

World
Libba Bray photo

“So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Feeling

“Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Guy, Girl
Dave Barry photo

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Dogs, Cars, Feeling

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”

Pam Brown (1948) Australian poet

Friendship, Weather
Guy Gavriel Kay photo

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 19 (p. 613)

World, Thinking
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Feeling
Jane Wagner photo

“It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

"Trudy"
Unsourced variants: I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep inner need to complain.
Source: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Lee Child photo

“Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.”

Lee Child book Bad Luck and Trouble

Source: Bad Luck and Trouble

Cars, Housing
Elizabeth Taylor photo

“I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame”

Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress

Love, Hate, Drawing

“Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Kim Harrison photo

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Men, World
Ayn Rand photo

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

People, Hurt
Sophie Kinsella photo

“We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Life, Thinking, Time
Paulo Coelho photo

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

W.E.B. Du Bois photo

“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?”

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

James Frey photo

“And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Dance, Personality
Cinda Williams Chima photo

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Wizard Heir

Love, People, World, Way
John Keats photo

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Men, World, Dreams, Problem
Steve Almond photo

“We need books… because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”

Steve Almond (1966) American writer

Books, Heart
Cormac McCarthy photo

“…. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses (1992)

Horse
Wendell Berry photo

“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Imagination, Reading
Albert Einstein photo

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Religion, Science
John Connolly photo

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Love, Feeling, Business
Deb Caletti photo

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Wild Roses

Life, People, Truth

“I needed to see you. And touch you. And just… know”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“I doona need drugs. I am naturally a mean bastard.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Be Still My Vampire Heart

Nature
Celeste Ng photo

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Love, Children, Hope
Wayne W. Dyer photo

“Everything I need now is here”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Tom Perrotta photo

“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

Life, People, Silence
Marianne Williamson photo

“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Woman's Worth

Love, Women
Augusten Burroughs photo

“Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

Life
Julian Barnes photo

“That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

History, Understanding, Question, Problem

“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

People
Elizabeth Gilbert photo

“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Forgiveness, Understanding
Jeffrey R. Holland photo

“Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

Problem, Change, Past, Help
Neal Stephenson photo

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

Neal Stephenson book Quicksilver

Source: Quicksilver

People, World, Flying
Greg Behrendt photo

“If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Feeling, Effort, Fight

“I lied. I need your help."
"Who are we killing?"
"Do you have a pen?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Help
Haruki Murakami photo

“Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

War, Perfection
John Connolly photo

“Storiesto be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Life, World, Reading
Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls

Source: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 44

Mountain, Understanding, Kiss, Despair
John Flanagan photo

“Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Life
Walter Mosley photo

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”

Walter Mosley (1952) American writer

Source: The Long Fall

David Foster Wallace photo

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

People, Secret
Jimmy Buffett photo

“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head…”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Reading
Richelle Mead photo

“Wanting and needing are two different things.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Evelyn Waugh photo

“The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Life, God
Jon Kabat-Zinn photo

“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Way, Despair
Marjane Satrapi photo

“Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly…" - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: The Complete Persepolis

Law
Ellen DeGeneres photo

“I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Way, Feeling, Fashion, Baby

“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: These Strange Ashes

Peace, Support, Joy, Christ

“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

Life
Meg Cabot photo

“I needed another soda. I’d only had six since breakfast.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Nicole Krauss photo

“Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Silence, Personality
John Piper photo

“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

God, People, Pleasure, World
Carl Sagan photo

“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

World, Understanding
Rick Riordan photo

“He’s a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,’ Nico said. ‘The last few years, he’s been my driver whenever I need one.’
‘You have a zombie chauffeur,’ Leila said.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Soul, Chance
Diana Gabaldon photo

“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Women, Way, Feeling, Thinking
James Patterson photo

“Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Help
Pete Seeger photo

“The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

Communication
Elizabeth Gilbert photo

“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian… I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Carl Sagan photo

“We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Truth, Imagination
Anne Lamott photo

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Effort, Learning
Stephen King photo

“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

God
Libba Bray photo

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Girl
Neal Stephenson photo

“It is what you don't expect… that most needs looking for.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Source: Anathem

“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen

Love

“God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

God
Leo Tolstoy photo

“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 8

Carl Sagan photo

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

World, Help, Madness
Douglas Adams photo

“‎If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner…"
"Yeah?"
"Please don't hesitate to get lost.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Help
Elizabeth Wurtzel photo

“For all of my life I have needed more.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Life
Jeannette Walls photo

“People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

People, Nature, Animals
Charlie Chaplin photo

“You need Power,
only when you want
to do something harmful
otherwise
Love is enough to get everything done.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Love
Gore Vidal photo

“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Death, Religion, Idea
Stephen King photo

“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”

Stephen King book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Ray Bradbury photo

“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451