Top 100 What I Need Quotes
#1. If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.
Chelsea Krost
#2. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.
Sara Quin
#3. I turn the corner and go into the store and get what I need. The lady at the checkout asks me how I'm doing, and I know she doesn't really want to know so I don't say anything. These people always make me want to destroy.
Henry Rollins
#4. I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.
Al Roker
#5. I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
Neil Gaiman
#6. If a penny can bring luck and a dime can grant a wish, how come my eleven cents hasn't bought me what I need.
Kasie West
#7. Perfect doesn't exist. Realness does. Realness is what I need.
Jessica Sorensen
#8. You're wrong that I don't know what I need. I want you. On your hands and knees, presenting for me. That's everything I want." He
Leta Blake
#9. It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#10. I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins
#11. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.
D.S. Mixell
#12. Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Chinua Achebe
#13. Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.
Kim Harrison
#15. I think what I need to do is stay awake while I'm sleeping so I can see what I'm dreaming better!!
Neil Leckman
#16. It's for Carson. (Margery)
And I repeat what I said. Just what I need, a bunch of drunk fucks working on me. Remind me not to do anything stupid tonight. Oh wait, I'm here. Too late for that warning, huh? (Fury)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. Instead of thinking how you can change yourself in order to please your partner, as so many relationship books advise, think: Can this person provide what I need in order to be happy?
Amir Levine
#18. When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.
Willem Dafoe
#19. I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
T. Boone Pickens
#20. That is what you want?" he asked. "That is what I need. There is a difference, Thanos. But be sure, I will not be an easy Ancient. And this life I offer, it is not for the faint of heart." "Luckily for you, I do not faint easily, and have been told countless times I possess no heart." The
Ella Frank
#21. What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me
Dave Matthews
#22. Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.
Grant Bowler
#23. Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross
#24. Levelheaded is not what you need, Sam. Damn it. You promised to leave me alone. But I am a miserable liar. Go away. And don't tell me what I need. You need passion. Sam
Paula Quinn
#25. I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.
Nick Goepper
#26. I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#27. I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#28. I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.
Eric Balfour
#29. I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.
Caroline Wozniacki
#30. I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers
John F. Kennedy
#31. Don't play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher)
Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
Ian Schrager
#34. I don't want to lose you," he says.
I stop because I finally know what I need to say.
"Gray, I'm not yours to lose.
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
Erica Jong
#36. I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
Fiona Apple
#37. Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak.
Lauren DeStefano
#38. Of course God already knows what I need. The question is - do I know?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#40. Tell me what to do. Tell me what I need to do to get you back... I stood there, gaping at him for a moment. Once upon a time I'd dreamt of those words coming from his mouth. Once upon a time I craved them. I felt that I needed them, but that time passed.
Claire Contreras
#41. She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it.
Lisa Renee Jones
#42. Only you could be more important than what I wanted ... what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.
Stephenie Meyer
#43. I think 'One Woman Army' sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?
Ciara
#44. What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
Mel Gibson
#45. If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.
Andre Agassi
#46. I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski
#47. They just need to sit on a bench with someone else so they know they're not alone. I know this because it's what I need too.
Emily P. Freeman
#48. I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.
Ricky Martin
#49. I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
Jaclyn Smith
#50. I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.
Julia Child
#51. I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
Jack White
#53. Don't apologize."
"I wasn't-"
"Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.
Kelley Armstrong
#54. They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
Thomas Keller
#55. You don't get to say goodbye. Not now, maybe not ever. That's the beauty of this arrangement. I make all the decisions and you're left to wander around in the dark, waiting, anticipating and fearing my next move. Only when I'm done using you and I've gotten what I need will I let you go.
Ella Dominguez
#56. Fine. You don't want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.
Abbi Glines
#57. I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."
Echo Bodine
#58. I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
Vince Gill
#59. What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
James Redfield
#60. In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an 'addendum in' my life verses the 'agenda of' my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. I don't want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.
M.C. Humphreys
#62. It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#63. Apologies are a dime a dozen. I don't need an apology. What I need is sincerity.
J.R. Richardson
#64. We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other. Maybe that's what I need. Someone to explain me.
Katja Millay
#65. Otherwise I'll just shoot you and take what I need and you're in no position to whine because the gun I'm holding was bought from this very establishment.
Michael Marshall
#66. When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.
Frank Marshall
#67. Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.
Pope Francis
#68. Alert. Aware. Dreams and memories slip away. Thoughts tumble. Tangled. Confused. Sounds from my mouth are primal. What I want to say, what I need to say stays locked inside.
Kristen Heitzmann
#69. Every day is a reminder of what I need to do to be the best person; the best me.
Debby Ryan
#70. POPPY (standing up to Paul): In time, Mom will realize I'm already the woman I'll always be. I'm not her at eighteen, feeling my way through the world. I've figured out what I want and who I am. Mostly, I know exactly what I need to be happy, and they're all in the house with me now.
Bijou Hunter
#71. I know what I need to know, like, who my enemies are.
Rick Riordan
#72. I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
Eugene Levy
#73. I've always believed that anyone can achieve their dreams, regardless. I've always had this attitude about no excuses. A belief that I can go on and do what I need to do. To go on, to succeed, regardless.
Kyle Maynard
#74. Perfect, just what I need this morning, another episode in battle of the wits.
Sonya Bria
#75. I've got ... ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
Jeff VanderMeer
#76. I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe)
Rex Stout
#77. I could never seem to make the people I love understand what I need. I don't know why.
Nora Roberts
#78. What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
John Zorn
#79. My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.
Billy Crystal
#80. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Suzanne Collins
#81. Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.
Lily Collins
#83. I've grown up a lot, and I've realized that what I need to make myself happy is the people around you.
Jessie J.
#84. I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.
Tina Fey
#85. I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.
Jose Bautista
#86. There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.
Johnny Damon
#87. It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here ...
Miley Cyrus
#88. Just what I need. A bubblegum explosion in my life.
Lauren Layne
#89. Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
Joseph Campbell
#90. what I like and what I need's two different things.
J.D. Jordan
#91. Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend
Biz Markie
#92. I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party ... I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.
Donna Karan
#93. In all of my fights, it is a learning experience. I would know afterwards what I need to improve on and what skills I need to maintain. This will make me a better fighter.
Tomoki Kameda
#94. My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson
#95. LORD, I am grateful for Your Word. It shows me how to live, and I realize my life only works if I'm living Your way. Meet me there in the pages and teach me what I need to know. "Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law" (Psalm 119:18).
Stormie O'martian
#96. I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.
Seann William Scott
#97. Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.
Rumi
#98. What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.
Karan Bajaj
#99. Oh beloved, Take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything, That takes me away from you.
Zeeshan Najafi
#100. My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
Don Murray
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