Needs Quotes

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

You need names to get the movie made.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

We all need grace in the face of each other.

You dont need a love scene to show love.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

We need music to restore the human spirit

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?