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Quotes About Need

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
~ Harlan F. Stone
What you need and what you want aren't the same things.
~ Cherise Sinclair
At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
~ James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Give the lady what she wants!
~ Marshall Field
It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"
~ Joe Hill
Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
~ R.L. LaFevers
What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
~ Barbara Sher
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
~ Dolly Parton
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
~ Edward Young
We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight.
~ Steven Erikson
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change.
~ Steven Erikson
the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events.
~ Steven Erikson
What feeds you is rent With the claws of your need. But needs dwell half in light And half in darkness. And virtue folds in the seam. If the demand of need is life Then suffering and death hold purpose. But if we speak of want and petty desire The seam folds into darkness And no virtue holds the ground. Needs and wants make for a grey world. But nature yields no privilege. And what is righteous will soon Feed itself with the claws Of your need, as life demands. QUALITIES OF LIFE SAEGEN
~ Steven Erikson
Imagine a world in which time seems to vanish and space becomes completely malleable. Where the gap between need or desire and fulfillment collapses to zero.
~ Stewart Brand
My sore words are inspired by desperate need.
~ Storm Constantine
Humanity is our sustenance! Without them, we have no immortality. Without them, we all die. Humanity and elohim need each other.
~ Storm Constantine
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. It is perhaps this fear of no longer being needed in a world of needless things that most clearly spells out the unnaturalness, the surreality of much that is called work today. "Since
~ Studs Terkel
Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.
~ Sue Bender
Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw are the bedrock of a fictional character's dramatic life, and the foundation of the actor's own life.
~ Susan Batson
Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
~ Ofra Strauss
I think it's easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another
~ Ellen Hopkins, Rumble