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Quotes About Need

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
~ David LaChapelle
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
~ Esperanza Spalding
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.
~ William Wordsworth
Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
~ E. M. Bounds
Tria questioned the morality of even that type of illicit entry. But her need and the enthusiasm of Rehanne and Lina persuaded her to agree to the attempt, despite her strong mistrust of spells. The room door was locked, the
~ E. Rose Sabin
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
~ E.M. Forster
Panic is an ugly beast; in one person, it is a savage focus on the need of the "me" to escape, to survive. Ironically, when it infects a group en massé it becomes a collective noun nonetheless, while losing none of the savagery.
~ Earl Merkel
Obligation They cannot ask for kindness Or for mercy plead, Yet cruel is our blindness Which does not see their need, World-over, town or city, God trusts us with this task: To give our love and pity To those who cannot ask.
~ Edgar A. Guest
'Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
~ Anonymous
Disappear in the wind.. reappear when in need... -Caleb Alan Hall
~ Anonymous
The Reich must need socks." "For what?" "For feet, Jutta (73).
~ Anthony Doerr
Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery and what is it that attracts us – the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable?
~ Anthony Horowitz
America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at it.
~ Charles Murray
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
~ Mal Peet
You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.
~ Claire Fox
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
~ Alice Walker
People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.
~ Larry Harvey
Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
~ Bruce Wilkinson
Tutoring follows the lucrative philosophy of advertising: if you can manufacture a need, people with disposable resources will find ways to fill it.
~ Eliot Schrefer
All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
~ Quentin Bryce
I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them - it's just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.
~ Mike Portnoy