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Quotes About Need

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I
~ Jim Butcher
Do you know how to really control someone...? Give them what they want. Give them what they need. Give them what no one else can give. If you can do that, they'll come back to you again and again.
~ Jim Butcher
What surprised him was not the urge. What surprised him was the need to stay.
~ Unknown
Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
~ Joan Didion
If you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.
~ Joanne Fluke
But I felt at that moment that if ever a place were in need of a little magic . . . Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes the impulse never quite leaves you.
~ Joanne Harris
What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
~ Jodi Picoult
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
~ Jodi Picoult
I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.
~ Jodi Picoult
Men marry what they need. I marry you.
~ John Ciardi
For it's not the things you say, or the thoughtful things you do. It's cos I need you and I love you quite simply cos you're you!
~ Unknown
Only wanna see me when you 'need' someone and its convenient for you? That aint a friendship, thats just you being selfish.
~ Unknown
Needing is a state of the ego that tries to convince us that we are empty and we need something to feel love, success and happiness. Our true self requires nothing to feel complete. From a state of being complete we create more to complete us.
~ Unknown
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Focus your efforts and energy towards what you need instead of what you desire.
~ Unknown
When you pray, God listens, when you ask, God gives. But we should only pray for the things we truly need, however some people forget to thank God for what they have received, always remember God gives but he can also take away.
~ Unknown
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~ George Chapman
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Finding love requires realizing the need for it.
~ Unknown
And I was thankful, truly! But I was also one of those unfortunate cases who could not help but wonder whether my need for American charity was due to my having first been the recipient of American aid.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Credit is what enables people to spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.
~ Unknown
There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.
~ Unknown
He has no need of anything that you give him, as if you can give him anything, but you have need of him to give to you, and you are always entirely at his mercy. People sometimes forget that, or they simply refuse to acknowledge it.
~ Unknown