Need Quotes

I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.

~ Jeannette Walls

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

~ Winston Churchill

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

~ Kofi Annan

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

~ Jeff Buckley

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

~ Sylvia Earle

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

~ Vince Carter

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

~ Theodore Roethke

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

~ Dorothy Gilman

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

~ Manuel Puig

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

~ Carlos Ponce

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

~ Sarah Palin

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

~ Gertrude Stein

We all need each other.

~ Leo Buscaglia

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

~ John Ross Bowie

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

~ Jeremy London

If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

~ Arundhati Bhattacharya

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

~ Anthony Fauci

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

~ Christopher Moore

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

~ Shepard Smith

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

~ John Cheever

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

~ Kellan Lutz

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

~ Whitey Herzog

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

~ Paul R. Ehrlich

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

~ Andy Rooney

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

~ Peter Drucker

You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

~ Arvind Gupta

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

~ Albert Pike

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

~ Walter Cronkite

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

~ Chuck Norris

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

~ Simon Cowell

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

~ Diablo Cody

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

~ Wilhelm Steinitz

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

~ Allan Savory

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

~ Alan Alda

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

~ Herodotus

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

~ George Papandreou