Top 100 Quotes About Being Needed
#1. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
J.G. Holland
#2. But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.
Lindsey Kelk
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
Betty Smith
#6. But from an early age, I had been taught that being needed was the same as being loved.
Betty Marvin
#7. Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
C. JoyBell C.
#8. I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
John Geddes
#9. I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#10. I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.
John Steinbeck
#11. Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.
Stephen King
#12. No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
Daniela Ruah
#13. That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
Amitav Ghosh
#14. Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave.
Sarah Winman
#15. Need was a funny thing; you were never sure if you had it by the tail or the jaw. Being needed forced her to find strength; being needed too much forced her to confront failure.
Michelle Sagara
#16. The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#17. This warm feeling of being needed, wanted, and special, like I was a treasure... was all I wanted to feel, forever.
Jennifer Lynch
#18. How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.
Jim Provenzano
#19. Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved.
Betty Smith
#20. Having someone saying you're okay as you are and being needed by that person... It was nice to have someone like that...
Yuyuko Takemiya
#21. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.
Ken Wahl
#22. My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
Caitlyn Jenner
#23. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
Nikola Tesla
#24. 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
#25. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.
Sylvia Day
#26. Coffee," I said boldly. "Some people need it in order to function, but being who you are, I wasn't sure if you actually needed anything other than blood and the souls of virgins to make it through the day, so I took a gamble.
Rachel Van Dyken
#27. We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
Marvin Minsky
#28. When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
David Blunkett
#29. According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.
Jay Leno
#30. The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.
Marci Shimoff
#31. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#32. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
Jane Siberry
#33. There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
Ram Shriram
#34. It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
Peter Hook
#35. With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.
Kumi Naidoo
#36. I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.
Ellen Miller
#37. Who needed to argue and exchange insults when you could just annoy the hell out of someone by being overly friendly and bubbly?
Suzanne Wright
#38. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.
George Schaller
#39. The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#40. The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
Dwight Schultz
#41. It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
Zara Phillips
#42. It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
Susan Wiggs
#43. Her ambitions were no longer specifically for happiness or financial security or freedom from disease (thought they included all three), but for something more general: the continuing certainty of things. She needed to know that she would carry on being herself.
Julian Barnes
#44. It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.
Stephen Reid Andrews
#45. Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.
Guy Finley
#46. Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes - " "Character," she said. "Loads of it.
Joey W. Hill
#47. Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.
Kelly Rowland
#48. This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.
Vladimir Nabokov
#49. I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.
Gisele Bundchen
#50. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
Matthieu Ricard
#51. It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#52. My threshold for human contact had worn painfully thin. I felt like a car that had been running its lights too long on battery alone. I felt fresh out of charge, and as though I needed to plug in for days before I could have one more conversation with one more human being.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#53. If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
Carlos Mencia
#54. Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. Being a healthy broke person was better than being an unhealthy broke person. Besides, he needed to think. And to be honest, most of what he did at the gym was more like thinking than exercising.
Marshall Thornton
#56. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
Oswald Chambers
#57. 'Oh, no,' Heilyn said, sidling a little closer. 'If I was being shameless, I would have said I was like a wishbone and you needed to spread my legs to make your dreams come true.'
Amy Rae Durreson
#58. In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#59. I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.
Tove Styrke
#60. Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.
Richard Carlson
#61. This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best
I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again.
Britney Spears
#62. Joy. Casey groaned under her breath. Just what she needed to plunge her day completely into the toilet - being the object of the plaid polyester king's desires.
Sherry James
#63. Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people ...
Erin Foster
#64. Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.
Gregg Hurwitz
#65. We were being offered exile on condition that we were silent about the reason we needed it. The silence chafed; it made us feel we were betraying those we had left behind. The British government was insisting on dealing with Hitler as a reasonable fellow, as if hoping he'd turn into one.
Anna Funder
#66. The good stuff was hiding the bad stuff. I realised that this was something I needed to look out for: When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what's bugging them, for the fear of being labeled complainers.
Ed Catmull
#67. There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Amy Tan
#68. More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defence of history by its professionals is today more urgent in politics than ever. We are needed.
Eric Hobsbawm
#69. Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.
Shane Warne
#70. What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
Jennifer Egan
#71. Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
Mike Myers
#73. To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.
Susan Griffin
#74. I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
Woody Harrelson
#75. This was where i needed to be for the rest of my life and it didn't matter if it was in New York, L.A or Timbuktu. He was home to me and nothing was more important than being with him.
Kahlen Aymes
#76. A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.
Debasish Mridha
#77. I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.
Matt Haig
#78. The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
Louisa May Alcott
#79. People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
Laila Ali
#80. 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
#81. Needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. But
Rachel Joyce
#82. Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
Victor Hugo
#83. Most problems could be diminished by the drinking of tea and the thinking through of things that could be done while tea was being drunk. And even if that did not solve problems, at least it could put them off for a little while, which we sometimes needed to do, we really did.
Alexander McCall Smith
#84. I felt like I was being eaten alive by guilt, and what I needed what your patience and your kindness, not for you to yell at me.
Veronica Roth
#85. You are the only thing I have ever needed and I won't give you up. The only being who will keep me from you is you," he says with conviction. "You are where I draw the line. They can have anything else that they want, but they cannot have you - not when I have breath in my body to prevent it.
Amy A. Bartol
#86. There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
Jacqueline Bisset
#87. It was never about you not being what I wanted. It was me not knowing that what I had was everything I needed.
Corinne Michaels
#88. I was so stuck on being what I thought I should be, that I couldn't be who I needed to be. ~Becca in Drawing Free
Elena Aitken
#89. I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.
Sigourney Weaver
#90. I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
#91. Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.
Frederic Gros
#92. When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.
Bootsy Collins
#93. I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
Claire Danes
#94. I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.
Donald Miller
#95. I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,
Marilyn Manson
#96. The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.
David Sedaris
#97. Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
Bill Shorten
#98. Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.
Robert Jensen
#99. Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
Claire McCaskill
#100. Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
Jarvis Cocker
