Needing Something Quotes

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

Charles Baxter

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

Susan Jeffers

#3. You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

Josh Turner

#4. The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Democritus

#5. Remember that "needing" something to change will always flow negative energy and hold it to you. Finding a way to become excited about what it will be changing into will flow positive energy and get the desired revisions started.

Lynn Grabhorn

#6. Eureka!" Mungo yelled. It was a word that wasn't actually a word but which he'd mathematically proved to exist in a parallel realm and he quite liked the sound of it when it came to needing something to yell in moments of cerebral triumph.

Jeffery Russell

#7. It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. "I need you to be sensible, Tom." But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.

Melina Marchetta

#8. Don't get caught in the trap of always "Needing" something. Needing something always projects your mind into the future as if you have it and is the opposite of gratitude. Be content in the present moment.

Matthew Donnelly

#9. Ten to one it's Syn's stupid ass needing something stupid. (Nykyrian)
You're hung up on that word, aren't you? (Kiara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.

Sarah Dessen

#11. He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.

Megan Erickson

#12. And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

Hugh Jackman

#13. I feel okay now. And I don't want to rest." In reality, he was fucking exhausted, and his head ached like a bitch. But he needed something more than sleep. He needed her. He needed to feel her. To feel her needing him. Wanting him.

Susan Fanetti

#14. I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.

Katherine Hannigan

#15. He stood right in front of me and pinched my arm and said, Can I see your room?
Such relief. Even the pinch was good. I understood completely about needing to hurt someone at the same time that you are giving them something.

Miranda July

#16. It wasn't as if she'd thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn't always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Shannon Celebi

#17. There is something so precious about watching your child day after day after day. I want to hold on to every moment, every smile, every single hug and kiss. I suppose it has to do with loving to be needed and needing to give love.

James Patterson

#18. Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Iyanla Vanzant

#19. Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

Arthur Darvill

#21. It would be perfect if they could make it taste like water, but pretending that something that laden with chemicals is somehow remotely connected to fruit or sunshine or chirpy rugrats adds insult to the injury of needing to drink the damn stuff in the first place.

Ann Somerville

#22. Squared away, oh yes, a completely Harry idea of how life is lived, with hospital corners and polished shoes. And even then I knew; needing to kill something every now and then would pretty much sooner or later get in the way of being squared away.

Jeff Lindsay

#23. Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed and permanent while everything else in my life was falling apart.

Morgan Matson

#24. People will wake up in the dark and pad to their kitchen needing strength, and the reassurance that something delightful is about to happen - and hoping that this small chore of making coffee might set the tone for a day filled with difficult, wonderful things.

James Freeman

#25. If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.

Jamie Dimon

#26. I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases ...

Claude Monet

#27. I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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