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Quotes About Need

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believes in ice – i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the place for it.
~ Terry Pratchett
We need to look closely at our relationships to see whether they are based primarily on mutual need or on mutual happiness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
when I betray myself," Yusuf answered, "I create within myself a new need—a need that causes me to see others accusingly, a need that causes me to care about something other than truth and solutions, and a need that invites others to do the same in response.
~ The Arbinger Institute
But with assimilation, with the educational and financial success of successive generations, the average Catholic's need of the Church is not social or political, it's moral and spiritual.
~ The Boston Globe
even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Every human being wants to love and be loved. This is very natural. But often love, desire, need, and fear get wrapped up all together
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.
~ Natalie Cole
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
~ Aristophanes
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
No wonder Barrons was so determined to keep me alive, and I had a Fae prince playing lapdog, and the Lord Master hadn't yet launched a full scale attack against me. They all needed me alive. I was Tigger. I was the only one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
My need for sex seems directly proportionate to how much emotion I repress, and I'm repressing violently today.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I didn't say I didn't like you. 'Like' is such a puerile word. Mediocre people like things. The only question of any significant emotive content is: Can you live without it?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Need me," he repeated firmly. "Use me to explore the woman who has never been given the opportunity to live. Take from me, need from me, and satisfy all that curiosity I feel burning in you. And by Dagda, let go of that maidenhead. Do you wish to live and die, never having known passion? Never having tasted what I offer you? Be bold. Take." He uttered the last word in a low, masculine tone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Removing work effort may require the team to eliminate not merely the work activities, but also the need for that effort.
~ Karen Martin
I'm regularly confronted with my own work to do and a need to feel a sense of integrity when I'm suggesting things to my clients.
~ Karen Wright
Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.
~ Karl Jaspers
I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.
~ Kate Carlisle
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
~ Galway Kinnell
the world needs another religion like it needs a bigger hole in the ozone layer.
~ Gary R. Renard
Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?
~ Brian Evenson
There has, I fear, developed the worst of needs, the need to know, coupled reluctantly with an awareness that I probably will, in fact, never know.
~ Brian Evenson
When we ignore those in need and are complicit in others' imprisonment, we cut ourselves off from our shared humanity. You may not notice it at first—or ever—but you are cut off from the source of life. The divine is found in each and every person. Each and every person! We must all be connected to each other in order to be connected to the source of life.
~ Brian Murphy
9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.
~ Brian Simmons