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Quotes About Need

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.
~ Matt Haig
wanting is also lacking. That is what "want" means.
~ Matt Haig
Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.
~ Matt Haig
To want is to lack. That is what it means.
~ Matt Haig
That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and the drums need to kick in. Something has to happen. Often that need comes from yourself. You make a phone call. You say, 'I can't do this life any more, I need to change.
~ Matt Haig
Want...is an interesting word. It means lack...if we fill that lack with something else, the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem.
~ Matt Haig
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
~ Matthew Barney
We need. To need is to be human.
~ Matthew Kelly
The only thing these online connections and communities prove is that as human beings we have an incredible need and hunger for meaningful interaction with each other.
~ Matthew Kelly
In psychology, we cannot dispense with the need for an appeal to lived experience, and it is clear that Piaget's schema does not respond to the experience of the subject.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maloprije sam bio siguran da sam joj potreban i da ?e to re?i ne štede?i ponos. Mislio sam da sam nadmo?niji. A sad sam želio da ?ujem bilo šta o sebi, lijepo ili ružno, povoljno ili nepovoljno, ali sam to želio s bijesom, gotovo s mržnjom, osje?aju?i da mi se izmakla, da nisam za nju neophodnost.
~ Meša Selimovi?
All that reading took. It became as basic as any other need. To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life, the drafty, disorganized, lumbering bus of a house, the disinterested parents.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Dozens. I've been drawing them forever. It was a way to—" I stopped, surprised that I'd almost said the truth about my mother and what these drawings had meant, about the future I'd been promised, my loneliness and need.
~ Megan Chance
It terrifies me to admit to a firsthand understanding of the way the heart and the ego are entwined. Like diseased trees that have folded in on one another, our need to worship fuses with our need to be worshipped.
~ Meghan Daum
On my message boards a recurrent theme was having a partner who didn't help, who didn't get it, who even judged and blamed. Even partners who did help often couldn't feel the wave of need engulfing the ill person. And my god, the need. It felt shameful to need other people so much.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. "I need you to be sensible, Tom." But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.
~ Melina Marchetta
He was watching her, testing the edges of her emotions and believing she was unaware of what he was doing. So she gave him the emotion he craved most from her, need. She couldn't say it , couldn't make the first move. She counted on him to do that. It absolved her of responsibility for the mistake she intended to make.
~ Melissa Marr
Come back you silly woman I need your credit cards.
~ Unknown
It isn't any particular person I want to lie down with and make my own. It isn't anybody at all. It is the feeling of being taken care of that I want to pin down and rock my hips against. Sling a leg across it and fall asleep. This longing for body comfort and security is familiar as my own face. The need is urgent. The need makes me stupid.
~ Unknown
most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.
~ Unknown
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
~ Michael Klaper
An ally in time of need is worth more than gold. (Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)
~ Unknown
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
~ Michael Redhill