Needing Quotes

#1. I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

Cutter Hodierne

#2. I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

Corey Stoll

#3. Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

Reese Witherspoon

#4. As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

Clayton M Christensen

#5. Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Michael Arrington

#6. I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.

Veronica Roth

#7. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.

Henry Cloud

#8. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

Nachman Of Breslov

#9. My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Angelina Jolie

#10. The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

Tori Amos

#11. Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

D.R. Silva

#12. He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.

Kambiz Shabankareh

#13. Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

Hannah

#14. I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.

Michael Cera

#15. Things were weird enough without needing to ride around in a van with a bunch of naked, somewhat geeky college students.

Jim Butcher

#16. .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.

Ian McEwan

#17. These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.

J.G. Ballard

#18. During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

Padma Lakshmi

#19. behaving like Europeans. Or if they are studying and encounter an obstacle, like needing money or failing an assignment, they often give up. When I was studying, I saw white people

Catherine Titasey

#20. There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

Jeffrey Jones

#21. True affluence is not needing anything.

Gary Snyder

#22. Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.

Dave Morris

#23. I need a life that isn't just about needing to escape my life.

Robert Polito

#24. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

Charles Webster Leadbeater

#25. What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. Suppose

Seneca.

#26. You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

Michelle Hodkin

#27. I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

Brittany Murphy

#28. It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

Renee Ahdieh

#30. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Susan Jeffers

#31. I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#32. Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Charles Baxter

#33. There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Robert Dale Owen

#34. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#35. I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.

Brenna Yovanoff

#36. Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

Janice Galloway

#37. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.

J.P. Donleavy

#38. A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.

Roald Dahl

#39. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Lester Levenson

#40. There's a quiet moment when my Noise fills the room with Manchee, just fills it with him, side to side, barking and barking and needing a poo and barking some more. And dying.

Patrick Ness

#41. My mom used to talk about fate all the time, and I think you're it ... you're my fate. You were brought to me for a reason, for us to save each other. Because you weren't the only one needing saved, Haven. I was drowning, and you rescued me.

J.M. Darhower

#42. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you - a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone.

Carrie Brownstein

#43. When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract needing money.

Rhonda Byrne

#44. Republicans are all about Old Glory and school prayer and the sanctity of marriage and the Fatherhood of God but when it comes to actually needing help from them, you shouldn't get your hopes up. They might send an ambulance or they might just send a Get Well card.

Garrison Keillor

#45. When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

Steve Maraboli

#46. No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.

Natasha Pulley

#47. Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.

William Gibson

#48. This was thing about temptations. God didn't take them away. They were there - powerful and still needing to be dealt with. If you gave them an inch of leeway, they had the dark strength to take you under.

Becky Wade

#49. Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, "I'm sorry." It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

Jim Norton

#50. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#51. There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

Richard Eyre

#52. But all it is, is needing someone warm, needing to be warm. Needing to love. Is that so bad?

Stephen King

#53. 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

#54. I just elbowed the pretty blonde he'd been speaking to aside and slapped my panties on his chest. "As soon as I saw you", I purred, "I knew I wouldn't be needing these"!

Jeaniene Frost

#55. Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

James Harden

#56. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Lewis Thomas

#57. I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Richard Gere

#58. Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

George R R Martin

#59. Needing to express what it's like here ... / Trying to digest the incoming stream ... / And dream it all over again.

Jay Woodman

#60. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Anonymous

#61. By then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Anne Lamott

#62. That night at Gertie's when she asked me if I preferred to be the one who loved slightly more or loved slightly less. More, I said. Not this time, she said in my ear. I am the one who will always love more. I didn't say, But I love without needing to own. Because I didn't know the difference then.

Lily King

#63. I think she loves him," Lissa said. "And love is needing someone.
Love is putting up with someone's
bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
"Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't," I replied,

Sarah Dessen

#64. I see so deeply within myself
Not needing my eyes.
I can see everything clearly!
Why would I want to bother my eyes again???
Now that I see the world ...
through His eyes.

Rumi

#65. I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#66. The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you ... It is the circle of life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#67. I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

Stuart Appleby

#68. And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches.

Shawn Mendes

#69. And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore."
"I didn't say that. Although let me get back to you on the clothes. It's still under consideration.

Ilona Andrews

#70. A true masochist hangs before me, finding pleasure from pain. Begging for, and needing more. She fills the sadist in me.

B.S.M. Stoneking

#71. Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

Miles Franklin

#72. Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Kate Atkinson

#73. My heart skipped a beat. 'I'm scared,' I admitted, needing to tell him. 'I'm scared to death of what I feel for you, of how you affect me. I feel like I'm falling.' 'Ah,' he breathed, 'don't you know, falling is the best part of flying.

Micalea Smeltzer

#74. ...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#75. We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.

Courtney Summers

#76. To science." Ben chuckled and closed the distance between them, brushing his lips across Maddox's for the first time. As per his usual, Maddox was several days past needing a shave, and his cheek was bristly against Ben's hand and his upper lip tickled Ben's. Maddox

Annabeth Albert

#77. The mark of a good book is not needing a bookmark.

Friend

#78. Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I'd have been without it?

Gillian Flynn

#79. But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you
knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

Ayn Rand

#80. Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

Lindsey Graham

#81. Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

Ralph Marston

#82. I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Ice-T

#83. I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

SZA

#84. What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#85. My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

Robert Breault

#86. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Robert Fulghum

#87. Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Subhash Kak

#88. Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Sarah Dessen

#89. All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Dickens

#90. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

John Darnielle

#91. I was an open field, full and plentiful, needing tender love and care. My parents drove the plow over me, tearing up my soil. They left me broken. Thirsty for love. Hungry for affection.

Tiffany Aleman

#92. The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.

Miriam Toews

#93. She was losing it. Needing to harden, hating that she was out of control and sloppy, she punched the leather. He needed to apologize. He needed to stop the fucking car and kiss her. She had to slap him. Eve didn't realize how badly she'd been craving this man.

Debra Anastasia

#94. We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Carl Rogers

#95. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

Eda LeShan

#96. She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

J.D. Salinger

#97. Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics postoperatively is dramatically reduced or even eliminated.

Kristi Funk

#98. Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon ... What needs doing is mine to do.

Charles Frazier

#99. I can't help but trip out about how similar my life is to 'Room.' It's me wanting to stay in my own little bubble and remain anonymous and invisible and at the same time needing to step up to this hand that I've been given.

Brie Larson

#100. There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Aristotle.