Quotes About Need

Is the need to love greater than the need to hate?

My secrets cry aloud.I have no need for tongue.My heart keeps open house,My doors are widely flung.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

We must continue to fundamentally change how City Hall invests in neighborhoods by prioritizing areas where the need is greatest.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

There is no doubt at all that the government monopoly over the insurance business had to end. There is a crying need for better service, more innovation, and a comprehensive insurance cover.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.

Era a única coisa que sempre tivera; e tendo, precisava; e precisando, tinha medo de perder.

Eric Fromm: "The need for . . . an object of devotion is deeply rooted in the conditions of human existence.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.

Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.

Soy un estúpido y todo cuanto hago es desear y necesitar cosas.

The presence of phantoms – everywhere – their faces, ripe with need and unspent passion, trailing their hunger like pollen from flowers that were past their hour but refused to wither and disappear.