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Quotes About Need

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!), "I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
~ Olga Ilyin
If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves.
~ Hindu proverb
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
~ Publilius Syrus
Reform is born of need, not pity.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.
~ German proverb
So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.
~ Jeremy Sisto
They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
~ Carles Puigdemont
There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
~ Tyler Perry
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
~ George Herbert
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
~ Roman Coppola
[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.
~ Joanna Russ
I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.
~ John Redwood
Nothing makes men sharper than want.
~ Joseph Addison
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
~ Joseph Barbera
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.
~ Lloyd D. Newell
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
~ Poul Hartling
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
~ Stephen Cambone
Sometimes you need a friend really badly, but everyone's gone away for the day.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away. They sat in silence. You know you frightened me a little, she said. At the beginning. No. You did. He smiled at that. You looked as if you didnt anyone, she said. But this are the ones who need the most, he said. Don't you know that? I do know, she said. Too late.
~ Susan Minot
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
~ Susan Wiggs
It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
~ Susan Wiggs
I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.
~ Susane Colasanti