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Quotes About Need

We've decided that your birthday present will be a car, said Marion. Danny was touched. But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car? You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny, Leslie replied. I think you're overlooking the biggest point here, said Danny. I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.
~ Orson Scott Card
Maybe it isn't based on what you deserve. Maybe it's based on what you need.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's like communes—people with nothing are always willing to share.
~ Orson Scott Card
Quara's need was and is so great that a person like me could be swallowed up in it a dozen times over. I had problems of my own then. Don't condemn me because I wrote her off. Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.
~ Orson Scott Card
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
~ Oscar Wilde
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
~ Oscar Wilde
The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security--somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
~ Connie Brockway
And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawkish sorrow, like one of his Victorian poems? Or a gnawing of some need unsatisfied? Or just a grayness to everything?
~ Connie Willis
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
~ Coretta Scott King
Do I think you're crazy? he said. No. I dont. You've rewrote the book for crazy. If all you are is crazy then all them poor bastards in the loonybin that they're feedin under the door need to be set loose in the street.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Die Füchsin<<, sagte er. >>Die Füchsin, ist alles was ich brauche.
~ Cornelia Funke
William Winter señaló una vez que la expresión del yo es la necesidad dominante en el carácter humano.
~ Dale Carnegie
Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
~ Warren Buffett
I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.
~ Warren Buffett
We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
~ Watchman Nee
We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.
~ Watchman Nee
I should ask, in the first place, whether or not I wish to purchase a solution to a problem that I do not have.
~ Wendell Berry
The final need is unconditional love. This is a difficult concept for many to understand. I discuss this need further in Chapter 15.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
man's greatest need is forgiveness while his greatest desire is power. [Bones]
~ Charles Martin
All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies.
~ Charles Martin
Use this to your advantage. Never get desperate. Maintain the attitude that they need you more than you need them. No man is worth getting desperate over. If
~ Charles Reed