Needs Quotes
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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?
David Jeremiah
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Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.
Esther Perel
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Sometimes it just needs one transfer and then others follow on like dominoes.
Alan Curbishley
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You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.
Gary A. Klein
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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
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I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.
Jason Mraz
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
Lao Tzu
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An isobar of emos. If anybody needs that explaining to them, it's because they are linked by their depression.
Ed Byrne
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You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
Ethel M. Dell
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If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.
John Tillotson
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The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.
Adam Beyer
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Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many
Caroline Criado-Perez
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When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
Sandra Oh
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The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.
Octavia Spencer
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Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
Salvador Dali
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I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
Alan Redpath
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
George Foreman
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
Nicolas Malebranche