Quotes
Quotes about Needs
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.
All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same wayâby finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.
To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Good wine needs no bush. -As You Like It. Epilogue.
He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.
