Quotes About Need

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

people grasp at political authoritarianism in the desperate need to be relieved of anxiety.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

Sometimes it was exhilarating to be needed.

The whole time we made love, in deepening light, we watched each other's faces as the expressions came and went. We saw the pleasure and the tenderness. We saw the helplessness deepen. We saw the need that was a beautiful sickness between us.

she'd looked it up and read the definition ("deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected")

She was a true paradox—so solitary, but with intense need for connection with the people she loved most.

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

To think of death, to pray. It may be that there is one who yet has need of this, and it is to his need that the bells give voice. I no longer have any such need, for the reason that I am dying every instant, and being born anew and without memories: alive and whole, no longer in myself, but in everything outside.

The fascination Fred and George show at Harry's scar corresponds to the need of that other twin, Thomas, to see 'the mark of the nails.

We need people like you, Dobson," said Gina. "In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.

But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified; there's the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them.

Donna Palmateer Pennee writes that "time" is "our most pressing infrastructural (and personal and political) need" (73).

We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

whats the point to spend money you haven't earned, to buy thingsyou don't need, to impress people you don't like

Life never gives you what you want or need just because you have a burning desire for it. Life gives you what you seek, knock, and ask for.

Help those who need it, not who want it.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?