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Quotes About Need

Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale, Belgarath was saying. I don't see why, father, Polgara replied. All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom. Old customs persist --even when there's no longer any need for them. He's going to need to study, Pol. How can he possibly study with you underfoot all the time? She gave him a long, chilly stare. Maybe I should rephrase that.
~ David Eddings
He's nearly a man, Faldor explained to Aunt Pol, and a man always has need of a good knife.
~ David Eddings
What you do is you hide your deep need to hide, and you do this out of the need to appear to other people as if you have the strength not to care how you appear to others.
~ David Foster Wallace
and oral narcotics addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction, and Gately is at this moment firmly in the need part of the schedule;
~ David Foster Wallace
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
~ William Shakespeare
What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.
~ William Shakespeare
The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses—it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.
~ William Styron
The mortal need was Security at all costs and by all methods, however stern or even harsh.
~ Winston S. Churchill
At that point, the thought I might need a criminal lawyer would never have blipped anywhere on my radar scope.
~ Woody Allen
They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
~ Christopher Morley
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was not aware of being alone; I could not feel it. I needed those I loved, it did not occur to me that those I loved did not need me. But now my eyes were open, and misfortune had already let mistrust enter my soul.
~ Unknown
O senhor não compreende, disse ela de novo irritada, que eu não posso pedir? porque preciso de tanto que ninguém pode me dar?
~ Clarice Lispector
Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. There is a time when you must take a picture of yourself. Hunger is always the same as the first hunger. The need renews itself empty and entire.
~ Clarice Lispector
the miracle is the note between two notes of music, it is the number between number one and number two. To have it all you have to do is need it. Faith — is knowing you can go and eat the miracle. Hunger, that is what faith is in itself — and needing is my guarantee that to me it will always be given. Needing is my guide.
~ Clarice Lispector
Soledad es tener sólo destino humano. Y soledad es no necesitar. No necesitar deja a un hombre muy solo, totalmente solo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and my protection? Am I not your source of joy? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, And in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else that you need?
~ Unknown
You could build a world out of need or you could hold everything black and see. You give back the lack. You hold everything black. You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of metaphor.
~ Claudia Rankine
He who desires is always poor.
~ Unknown
A person remembers different people when in need. But when the person doesn't need anything anymore, the person forgets almost everything even the people's names.
~ Unknown
People asks when they are in need. People questions when they don't want to heed.
~ Unknown
The growth of these markets therefore seemed to reduce the need for information, other than the self-referential information being produced by the markets about themselves. This came to represent a higher reality than the 'real' economy.
~ Unknown
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need to know as you saddle up?
~ Hilary Mantel