Quotes About Need

It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics.

Where do my tears go? Why is it that I can't cry now when I need to? Yet I knew that later my tears would be unexpectedly triggered by the scent of lilacs, or the low hum of a cello.

And I need this. That's all I can tell you.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer, then you are obviously asking the wrong question.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

I had been born in order to fill the great need I had of myself.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I'm going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

Right up front, let me pass on an important lesson I've learned about the role of assumption and belief in our lives. It demonstrates our need for the discipline of philosophy, in an unusual way.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.