Need Or Want Quotes

#1. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.

James Baldwin

#2. I don't think there is a question as to whether or not I want you, because that is painfully blatant right now, but did I miss you? It was so much more than that. And do I need you? Yes. I need you. My heart needs you, Delilah.

Lindy Zart

#3. If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

John McEnroe

#4. I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

Umberto Eco

#5. Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

Suze Orman

#6. Don't. Please don't say it."
I search his eyes. For what, I don't know. "Why?"
"Because I don't want you to. I need you to come back to me. Not to help me. Or to help my father. I'm done with that. I don't want your help. It all boils down to you. I just want you.

M. Leighton

#7. My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.

Thu Tran

#8. Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

Ogden Nash

#9. My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

George J. Mitchell

#10. Before anything else, I need your trust. Your absolute trust in me--and yourself. You have to know you are the only woman I will ever want or need. You have to know that it is in you to meet my every desire, just as I will meet yours.

Christine Feehan

#11. We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.

Tarkan

#12. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's

Marlon James

#13. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Hayley DiMarco

#14. Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

Deepak Chopra

#15. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

Sara Paretsky

#17. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Denzel Washington

#18. We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

Hafez

#19. There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Diablo Cody

#20. I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

Ben Horowitz

#21. You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

Jennifer Connelly

#22. We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become ... You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.

Barbara Coloroso

#23. What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

Natasha Leggero

#24. I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

Eliza Doolittle

#25. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin

#26. My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

Allison Pearson

#27. You need to decide if you want to be on the ferry when it sets off or if you are happier back on the sturdy pier.

Jessica Brockmole

#28. You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked ... very much ... and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.

Kristen Ashley

#29. In the Strategy of Pairing, I couple two activities, one that I need or want to do, and one that I don't particularly want to do, to get myself to accomplish them both. It's not a reward, it's not a treat, it's just a pairing.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape - with any degree of success - is the person in the mirror.

Kerry Patterson

#31. Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Guy Kawasaki

#32. If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

Saul Griffith

#33. We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

Jimmy Cliff

#34. If we want our daughters to honor their bodies, they need to hear us honor ours, no matter what size or shape we are, no matter what scars or sags we see in that mirror.

Regina Brett

#35. She didn't want to need anything, particularly something - or someone - she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on

Julie Anne Long

#36. I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

Leslye Headland

#37. Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.

Donna Tartt

#38. I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.

Jan Denise

#39. Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction - not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be ... just because you're you.

Jodi Picoult

#40. But when we recognize that these are not really what we desire, our goal becomes not to suppress desire but to identify the true want or need, and to fulfill it. That is no trivial task; it is a profound path of self-realization.

Charles Eisenstein

#41. Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

Jenna Fischer

#42. If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

Ethan Embry

#43. People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

Jesse Ventura

#44. What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

James Garner

#45. Where there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off.

You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.

Augusten Burroughs

#46. I don't need prestige or wealth," he said softly. "I need you, and I want you with me forever.

Melanie Dickerson

#47. Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'

Leelee Sobieski

#48. All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

Sherri L. King

#49. Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

Andrew Nikiforuk

#50. Do I need to come over there? Because I want you to understand that I want you. Not Miss Colorado or some model. I want you. ~Nick to Ellie

Cindy Roland Anderson

#51. What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

Sarah Ruhl

#52. The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

Bruce Springsteen

#53. In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

Iyanla Vanzant

#54. If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

Mark Zuckerberg

#55. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.

Holly Bourne

#56. The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power - and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live.

James Baldwin

#57. The job of the politician in America, whether at the local, state, or national level, should be, in good part, to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to do if they want to thrive within it.

Thomas L. Friedman

#58. I didn't want or need their sympathy because it made me feel weak. I hated pity. I hated people feeling sorry for me.

Dahlia Mikha

#59. Solitude is addictive. Once you discover how peaceful it is, you no longer want or need to deal with people anymore.

Nicola Haken

#60. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.
And he's standing in front of me right now.
So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Screw it. Let the fates decide.

Stephanie Perkins

#61. Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what ... 89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?

Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

#62. ..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.

Jenny Mollen

#63. If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths - biases, fears, courage, values and dreams - do or do not impact the daily work of others.

Bill Jensen

#64. I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Hippocrates

#65. I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Joyce Meyer

#66. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

#67. When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

Siri Hustvedt

#68. I can't go out and plant a million trees, but I can go out and tell [students] to plant 10 each. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what exactly do you want- a grove or a forest?

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#69. Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

Angelina Jolie

#70. I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.

Art Donovan

#71. I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

Jordin Sparks

#72. Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Richard Saul Wurman

#73. Do you want to fuck off, or do you need a written invitation?

Santino Hassell

#74. I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.

Queen Latifah

#75. Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Sheryl Swoopes

#76. If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.

Ryohgo Narita

#77. You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#78. It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I need you guys." I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn't want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me.

Anthony Jeselnik

#79. You'll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only family I ever knew, and I miss him almost as much as you. But I need me a woman.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#80. I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

Danielle Steel

#81. I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn't lead, their jobs I couldn't do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

Andrew Solomon

#82. Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.

Wayne Dyer

#83. Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Krista Tippett

#84. Without the blues, you can't have the greens. Good, bad, or indifferent, you need all your levels to balance each other out if you want your track to sound tight.

Love Maia

#85. Her philosophy is very empowering - that everything we want or need in life we can have, and we can get for ourselves. (She also believes that you should say nice things to your water if you want to encourage its healing properties, but every sage has a few eccentricities.) I

Megyn Kelly

#86. Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?

Janet Morris

#87. Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you, need you or want you with me.

Dawn Metcalf

#88. Be a model for what you want to see in the world. Yes, there is conflict and suffering, but you do not need to let that define who you are or how you show up in the world.

Arianna Alexsandra Collins

#89. Efore I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about.
This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know.
Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance?
Or does it come much later?

David Levithan

#90. The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

George Herbert

#91. Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

George Reisman

#92. I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.

Graham Greene

#93. I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.

Drew Daywalt

#94. Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Felix Dennis

#95. Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#96. I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Vince Carter

#97. I'm an immortal. But I don't want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don't want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but in order to get it I need someone to put an end to my life in this world.

Ramsey Isler

#98. After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

George Clooney

#99. You need interesting content that entertains or informs - preferably both. You want people to look forward to your posts and come back for more. People want to follow you. They want to hear your words and see your vision.

Michelle Phan

#100. Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire ...

Robert Graves