Top 100 Never Needed Quotes
#1. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana Grande
#2. It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites
others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.
SARK
#3. Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.
Tess Oliver
#4. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy
#5. There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Havelock Ellis
#6. Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
Dan Simmons
#8. I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against it. But I knew I needed this. I knew she needed this. I had to start this off right. She deserved it, she deserved everything.
J.L. Berg
#9. I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.
Jana Wolff
#10. When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied.
Peace Pilgrim
#11. I needed to save every penny ... I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That's why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.
Li Ka-shing
#12. Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending on the time of the month.
Lilley, R.K. (2012-10-20). In Flight (Up in the Air Book 1) (Kindle Locations 2695-2696). R.K. Lilley. Kindle Edition.
R.K. Lilley
#13. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons
#14. I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.
Steven Brust
#15. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.
Cynthia Rylant
#16. I needed a push, Phillip. I needed you to push me, otherwise, I wouldn't have freaked. I needed to feel like we were over to know that there's no way I'd ever let us be over. I never want us to be over, Phillip. Never, ever.
Jillian Dodd
#17. I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.
Kaya Scodelario
#18. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.
Gillian Flynn
#19. He fought because it was considered the 'thing to do,' because he liked the people he had to live with, and because those people wouldn't have a good opinion of him if he didn't fight. People never needed much of a philosophic motive to make them do the socially approved things.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#20. Miss Prendregast!" He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. "You were never in any danger!"
"Except from the wild animals."
His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. "Alert me if you're attacked by a rabbit.
Christina Dodd
#21. It was he who needed to make it happen. It was he who would have to come to the realization that he could never make one woman completely happy if he could not choose that one woman over so many. He was not ready. The
Shirley Dieu
#22. There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
Alec Baldwin
#24. Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
Miguel Syjuco
#25. I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there."
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.
Jeaniene Frost
#26. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.
Nikki Rowe
#27. Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
Sue Monk Kidd
#28. I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
Hamish Linklater
#29. I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
Elaine Paige
#30. I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.
Chris Cornell
#31. I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
Kathryn Harrison
#32. I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
Morgan Freeman
#33. His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.
Christopher Fowler
#34. First I lost Jax, whom I never really had to begin with, and now I was going to lose my friend, the guy who always made me laugh when I needed it the most.
Abbi Glines
#35. A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
Brandon Sanderson
#36. sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
-you are too late
Rupi Kaur
#37. Does love end when a relationship ends? Or does a relationship end because love has ended?
.
When you had me, you never needed me. Now when you can't have me, you shouldn't need me.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#38. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
Deb Caletti
#39. I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
Dave Grohl
#40. I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
Leo Kottke
#41. New York. Tomorrow. He needed more time to prepare. But a lifetime wouldn't be enough. He'd never be ready to face her again. Not without pulling her into his arms. Not without refusing to ever let her go.
Alessandra Torre
#42. For the first time, I had a protector - andI never knew I needed one until then.
Karina Halle
#43. Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.
Paulo Coelho
#44. I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Paul Auster
#45. I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.
Kate Carlisle
#46. Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
Ricky Martin
#47. I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a country song.
Brad Meltzer
#48. To create the needed change ... We must become angry enough to stand up & speak out against all ABUSE & INJUSTICE against Humanity! Wrong is Wrong and NEVER can be Right!
Timothy Pina
#49. I didn't intend to give up music. In fact I needed it. I craved it. I longed for it with such ferocity, I dreamed every night of songs I never allowed myself to play.
Stormy Smith
#50. I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.
Tia Mowry
#51. In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before ... we needed a hit.
Lauren Zalaznick
#52. No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#53. I needed experience. How Could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die?
Sylvia Plath
#54. I never needed the Society to Match me.
Ally Condie
#55. Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.
Joseph Heller
#56. I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
Allen Iverson
#57. But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a home, right? They needed love.
Jennifer Brown
#58. Never live at the mercy of people because they can run out of mercy when you needed them the most.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#59. A man who had never spoken love to me, who had never needed to, for I knew he loved me, as surely as I knew I lived. For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.
Diana Gabaldon
#60. I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#61. He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
Kelley Armstrong
#62. A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
Joyce Brothers
#63. What would the earth be like, what would we be like, if we never believed that we needed more than we were given?
Marilyn Grey
#64. Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.
Portia De Rossi
#65. I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.
Roger Ailes
#66. White people ... have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this
which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never
the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.
James Baldwin
#67. I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
Madeleine Peyroux
#68. The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
Mark Dever
#69. Why are we talking about this?" Tsukuru said, half to himself, trying to sound upbeat. "I've never talked to anybody about this before, and never planned to." Sara smiled faintly. "Maybe you needed to talk with somebody. More than you ever imagined.
Haruki Murakami
#70. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this - which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never - the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. People
James Baldwin
#71. My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
Mary Wesley
#72. I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.
Sonakshi Sinha
#73. There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.
Steve Allen
#74. Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.
Garrison Keillor
#75. We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles."
-A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST
Chris Enss
#76. Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's goodness would provide everything He needed. And the Father never failed Him.
Derek Prince
#77. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.
Rainbow Rowell
#78. We were both just too messed up to ever be with each other in the way we needed to be. Two shooting stars that burned out too quickly, never quite reaching each other's skies.
Tillie Cole
#79. It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.
Kathleen Parker
#80. Jesus never asked a question because HE needed to know the answer.
Christopher Bozung
#81. I never got falling-down drunk, just maintained a nice steady infusion throughout the day. A lot of it I sweated out. The rest I put to use. I was the designated charmer of the household, the one responsible for keeping everybody else's spirits up. To play my part I needed booze. I
Hillary Jordan
#82. When I'm not around you that is when I feel breathless. I liken it to being a fish, and you are my water. When I'm not around you, I feel as though I cannot breathe. And you have to understand the irony in that because I've never in my entire existence ever needed to.
S.L. Naeole
#83. My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there's a magazine out there that said, 'Oh, size two,' or, 'Oh, this girl's beautiful because she's skinny.'
Hayley Hasselhoff
#84. Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression
L. Neal
#85. I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.
Charles Davis
#86. In the end, it doesn't matter, but I wanted you to know; I needed you to know because I read your text to Sarah. You told her I was everything you never thought you could have, and I'm telling you, you're everything I never knew I wanted, but I'm so glad you're here.
Cate Beauman
#87. I'm Violet," I growl. "I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it."
Total silence.
Then someone mutters, "Is she talking about her virginity?"
In retrospect, I realize I could have worded that better.
Nicole Christie
#88. Samuel, I've never considered our relationship to be tragic. I will always remember you as my first love. The first guy who opened me up and saw in me something passionate and strong that needed to be brought to life. Tragic ... never. Beautiful ... always.
Angela Richardson
#89. While never ultimately commercially successful, the Dreamcast is home to the most expensive-to-produce games made to date. Shenmue and Shenmue 2 cost more than $70 million at the time; Sega would have needed to sell two copies of each game for each Dreamcast
Sam Pettus
#90. As much as I wanted her, I think I needed her more. I've never needed anything more than her.
Jay McLean
#91. Consumerism provides no psychological satisfaction, because there is no limit to our desires for things that we never needed in the first place.
Emily Wilson
#92. I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.
Ricky Schroder
#93. Did you feel that?' I asked him.
He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.
Robin Hobb
#94. She looked at him like he mattered, like she needed him, like all the happiness in her world was somehow bound to him, and it made a fierce longing, like he'd never experienced before, spring up within him.
Katy Regnery
#95. In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#96. But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I'd never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was,
Don DeLillo
#97. My heart yearned for Aiden like he was the very air I needed to breathe, but at the same time I understood - really understood - that, even if Aiden had loved me in return, we could never be together.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#98. I never needed anyone.
I only need to serve my mission.
Petra Hermans
#99. In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#100. If he knew, he'd never allow her to do the thing she needed to do most.
Jackie Castle
