Quotes about need

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“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind…”

“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

“All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.”

“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

“What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.”

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”

“It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.”

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”

“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

“A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.”

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write”

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”

“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”

“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least”

“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”

“I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”

“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.”

“Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.”

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”

“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”

“We need to talk. All of us. About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Runway. It's on next.”

“love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love, with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”

“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”

“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.”

“Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.”

“We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”

“I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.”

“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“What can be imagined—
—need never be lost.”

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”

“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.”

“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”

“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”

“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”

“It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.”

“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”

“You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant.
You mean the sledgehammer, sir?
Yes.”

“The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.”

“Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”

“You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

“Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.”

“I still believe that all you need is love.”

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”

“A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive.

--Gaara”

“There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.”

“But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)”

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”

“Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.”

“I think I need to avoid the world today. There’s no way I
can adult.”

“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”

“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

“Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.”

“It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.”

“Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over… Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.”

“I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.”

“This isn't funny. She was almost killed.'
'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.'
'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.'
'I just need a name.”

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can”

“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.”

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?"
"Nope!"
"Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.”

“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”