Top 100 My Needs Quotes

#1. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan

#2. It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

Steve Martin

#3. I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

John McCain

#4. If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

Jamie Dimon

#5. I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

Seneca The Younger

#6. I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

Jay Watson

#7. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#8. All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels.

Carnie Wilson

#9. My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

Drew Chadwick

#10. Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Charles R. Swindoll

#11. Recently I began to feel this void in my life, even after meals, and I said to myself, "Dave, all you do with your spare time is sit around and drink beer. You need a hobby." So I got a hobby. I make beer.

Dave Barry

#12. Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to get looked over. That is why I love how North Shore Animal League America has their shelter set up.

Beth Ostrosky Stern

#13. Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Michael Graves

#14. But when you have a baby inside you, you're like 'Whoa!' Anything can happen here, I've got to give this baby all the nutrients it needs and really take care of myself, so this is definitely the healthiest I've ever been in my life.

Holly Madison

#15. But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Rajneesh

#17. But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.

Tess Sharpe

#18. The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

Horace Pippin

#19. Hello." Sara's soft, sexy voice sounded on the other end. "Mitch?" "Yeah?" Forgoing pleasantries and getting right to the point, she said, "My kitty stopped purring. I think it needs to be resuscitated."

Cathryn Fox

#20. I just need to do something new ... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Cecelia Ahern

#21. And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

Jennifer Carter

#22. Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

George Carlin

#23. I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

Agathe Snow

#24. My perfect guy right now would be a mannequin - one that comes alive only when I need him to!

Raven-Symone

#25. I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.

Miguel Tejada

#26. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.

Erin Kellison

#27. I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family
this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#28. With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

Rodney Dangerfield

#29. My buddy's just being an ass. It's his life's work." "Everyone needs a purpose.

J.R. Ward

#30. I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.
That isn't my story.

Gillian Marchenko

#31. My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.

May Sarton

#32. All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

Barry Unsworth

#33. Sir, your friend needs to put her seat belt on."
"As much as I like a lovely girl leaning on my shoulder," a lilting voice whispered near my ear, "I think you might want to listen to the flight attendant.

Jenny B. Jones

#34. Everyone needs a home, and you're mine. It's not this house. It's not a building. It's wherever you are. That's my home.

Nina Levine

#35. No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he's still him, and I'm still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess - not the girl who spars with him.

Sara Raasch

#36. You have everything to suit your needs, and I have you. My slut, to suit mine.

Jettie Woodruff

#37. I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

John Frusciante

#38. Relax, Salazar. I'm just messing around. Besides, I have my eye on somebody right now."
"Who?" Danielle and Colt said at the same time.
"That's on a need-to-know basis," Oz said, "and right now neither one of you needs to know.

Jon S. Lewis

#39. But none of that is possible," he continued, "if my heart is at war. A heart at war needs enemies to justify its warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.

The Arbinger Institute

#40. I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Salman Rushdie

#41. God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

Sherri Shepherd

#42. My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

#43. You know, Ian," Antonia commented, "my father always said a person needs a reason to leave and a reason to go. But I think sometimes the reason to go is so big, it fills you so much, that you don't even think of why you are leaving, you just do.

Erica Bauermeister

#44. God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

Tony Robbins

#45. I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

Carly Fiorina

#46. It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.

Julianne Hough

#47. A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?

Pat Heim

#48. When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#49. My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

Martin Feldstein

#50. My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

Bella Thorne

#51. I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life.

Mariska Hargitay

#52. They say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above this wall ... and someday I shall be released.

Bob Dylan

#53. The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

Ian Caldwell

#54. My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Faina Ranevskaya

#55. Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.

Derek Luke

#56. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. Tyrion

George R R Martin

#57. I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.

Mother Teresa

#58. If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

Patricia Arquette

#59. In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"

Maria Mitchell

#60. I can only hope and pray for God to supply my every need!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#62. When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

Anthony Minghella

#63. My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

Estelle Morris

#64. I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

Scottie Pippen

#65. I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Patti Stanger

#66. In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Henry A. Kissinger

#67. 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

Adam Christopher

#68. So much for my great vendetta, so much for the tireless hunt for my betrayer. Isn't this how life turns out, more often than not? It refuses to conform to your needs - the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth.

William Boyd

#69. Just waking up "clothed in my right mind," being able to put my feet on the floor, walk to the bathroom, and do what needs to be done there is five stars. I've heard many stories of people who aren't healthy

Oprah Winfrey

#70. We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

Rob Hopkins

#71. I'm sorry, Sawyer. I never meant to hurt you. I made a mess of things. You aren't going to have to watch Beau and me together. I'm stepping out of both your lives. You can get back what was lost."
Sawyer reached up and grabbed my hand. "Don't do that, Ash. He needs you.

Abbi Glines

#72. An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Adolf Galland

#73. I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

Steve Lillywhite

#74. My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That's all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with all your soul.

Kim Harrison

#75. What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.

Grace Gealey

#76. There's a new Facebook app that will post a final status update for you after you die. That's ridiculous. I don't need someone to change my status when I die. I need them to water my Farmville crops.

Jimmy Fallon

#77. Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

Roger Ebert

#78. The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

Charlie Clouser

#79. Every girl needs to make an entrance. It's part of her signature. My hot pink high heels hit the sidewalk and I straightened. My blue jean skirt was brand new and had a bunch of totally rad colorful ruffles on it. My neon green top was spandex and fit like a glove.

Cambria Hebert

#80. I need to have systems in place to track and monitor my leads

Tim Gordon

#81. We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

Martin J. Whitman

#82. I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

Soko

#83. The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#84. Even the most gifted person needs someone to initiate him. The one that life puts in your path one day, that person must be loved and respected for ever, even if he's not responsible. That is my faith!

Albert Camus

#85. Who'd break up with him?"
"I might, if he was insufficiently attentive to my needs.

Cassandra Clare

#86. I'm not the kind of person who needs to be a mother no matter what. Life brings you people. Maybe I'll nurture someone who's not my child, like a friend, or an actor I'm working with who needs some love.

Heather Graham

#87. Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Thom Yorke

#88. I would have taken Zeb, purely for entertainment value, but he had an actual date, with a real girl. That hadn't happened in a while, so I was a good friend and put my own needs second to the possibility of him actual sex with a real girl.

Molly Harper

#89. I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.

Charles L. Allen

#90. I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Wayne Dyer

#91. I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.

Michelle Rodriguez

#92. My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

Sarah Dessen

#93. I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature - my character, or who I am.

Lynn G. Robbins

#94. He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball ... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

Shaquille O'Neal

#95. What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. I have talked to myself for years in the privacy of my journals.

Terry Tempest Williams

#96. I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.

Jessica Sorensen

#97. I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.

Alberto Manguel

#98. my lovers had only ever tended to their own needs. I didn't know that romance and sex were different creatures - one of the soul, one of the body. I had no idea that two souls can feel as if they are joined in one body, as it were, no matter the shape of the bodies involved. Clara

Kelly Gardiner

#99. I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.

Lee Daniels

#100. In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is - a business administration !

Sinclair Lewis

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