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Quotes About Need

You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don't love Jecca. I don't love Fanboy. But... God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won't they. I don't love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
~ Barry Lyga
The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.
~ Barry Unsworth
Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.
~ Bartholomew of San Concordio
Don't need what you want. Want what you need.
~ Bashar
It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.
~ Loretta Swit
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
~ Francis Herbert Hedge
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief.
~ Yance Ford
I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was 'From each according to his or her ability and to each according to his or her need.' And it's something that is still really important to me in thinking about how I prioritize what I do with my life.
~ Tracy Chapman
The Raiders took me fourth overall because they had a certain need, and that was for me to come in and play man-to-man, bump-and-run all day, to guard the best receiver. You understand your job going in, so that's what you focus on. Would I have liked to play receiver and go both ways? Yep, would have loved to have done that.
~ Charles Woodson
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.
~ Johnny Mathis
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
~ Charles Eames
One of the things I always admired about my brother was his genuine desire to help others in need.
~ Cody Walker
We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'
~ Mitch McConnell
I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them.
~ Gillian Flynn
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
~ Jon Ronson
Trust is born in love, and our need is to love God, not apprehend facts concerning him.
~ George MacDonald
I need a God; and if there be none how did I come to need one?
~ George MacDonald
I should be ill," she continued, "if I did not live on the borders of the fairies' country, and now and then eat of their food. And I see by your eyes that you are not quite free of the same need; though, from your education and the activity of your mind, you have felt it less than I. You may be further removed too from the fairy race.
~ George MacDonald
I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man--that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.
~ George MacDonald
But the man of independent feeling, except he be thus your friend, will not unlikely resent your compassion, while the beggar will accept it chiefly as a pledge for something more to be got from you; and so it will tend to keep him in beggary.
~ George MacDonald
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
~ George Orwell
When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasfemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
~ George Orwell
The walls of Babylon were an outstanding example of man's need and desire for protection.
~ George S. Clason
No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.
~ Georges Bataille