Quotes about Needs

"Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to."
-Mark Twain

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
-George Orwell

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."
-John Muir

"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."
-Kareem Abdul jabbar

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
-Frederick Douglass

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
-Le Corbusier

"At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?""
-Grace Murray Hopper

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night."
-Margaret Mead

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
-Mark Twain

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
-Mark Twain

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
-Albert Camus

"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good."
-T. S. Eliot

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
-Rene Descartes

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"California needs to solve its economic problems, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the engine that will solve those problems."
-Warren Buffett

"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."
-Franklin P. Adams

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool."
-Rudyard Kipling

"A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot."
-German Proverb

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
-William Faulkner

"A functioning police state needs no police. "
-William S. Burroughs

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
-Peter McWilliams

"The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7', it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone."
-Woody Allen

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
-Meister Eckhart

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
-Oscar Levant

"It can take up to three days for one piece to dry, depending on how thick it needs to be."
-Shiraz Peled

"It's not a matter of if they show up, ... It's that (the evacuees') needs are being met. People shouldn't get discouraged if they don't come. We need to keep praying that the evacuees are in a good place and can get what they need."
-Joe Keller