300 Quotes on Needs

• The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

  Author: Will Wright

• If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.

  Author: Ellen Wood

• There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

  Author: Diane Wood

• The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

  Author: Diane Wood

• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

  Author: John Wise

• Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

  Author: Tony Wilson

• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

  Author: Heather Wilson

• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  Author: E. Wilson

• 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.

  Author: August Wilson

• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

  Author: Timothy White

• I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Author: Morris West

• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  Author: Mae West

• You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

  Author: Allen West

• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

  Author: Andrew Weil

• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

  Author: Tom Watson

• Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

  Author: John Warnock

• Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

  Author: Mark Warner

• One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

  Author: Charles Warner

• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  Author: Charles Warner

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

  Author: Jim Wallace

• Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

  Author: Jon Voight

• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Author: Jon Voight

• We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

  Author: Fred Upton

• The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

  Author: John Updike

• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  Author: Gabrielle Union

• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Author: Mark Udall

• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Author: Mark Udall

• Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

  Author: Shania Twain

• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

  Author: Glenn Turner

• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

  Author: Alan Turing

• From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

  Author: John Trumbull

• A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

  Author: Harry Truman

• In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

  Author: Robert Trout

• At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

  Author: Rose Tremain

• McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

  Author: Chuck Todd

• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

  Author: Terence

• Good luck needs no explanation.

  Author: Shirley Temple

• The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

  Author: Madame Swetchine

• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  Author: William Sumner

• If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

  Author: Andy Summers

• It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

  Author: Picabo Street

• There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.

  Author: Picabo Street

• Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

  Author: Picabo Street

• Time needs another minute.

  Author: Sly Stone

• I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

  Author: Sting

• I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

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

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

  Author: William Stein

• The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  Author: Edith Stein

• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

  Author: Ben Stein

• We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.

  Author: Michael Steele

• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  Author: Bart Starr

• The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.

  Author: John Spencer

• And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  Author: Warren Spahn

• We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

  Author: Merrie Spaeth

• Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

  Author: Robert South

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

• Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  Author: George Soros

• I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

  Author: George Soros

• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  Author: Sophocles

• John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

  Author: James Somerville

• But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

  Author: John Snow

• We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

  Author: John Snow

• I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

  Author: Eric Snow

• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  Author: Yeardley Smith

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

  Author: Lance Secretan

• It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

  Author: Menachem Schneerson

• Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  Author: John Sayles

• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

  Author: Mark Sanford

• I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

  Author: Richie Sambora

• The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.

  Author: Titus Salt

• Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

  Author: Zoe Saldana

• Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

  Author: John Salazar

• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  Author: Ernest Rutherford

• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Author: Tim Russert

• I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

  Author: Karl Rove

• You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

  Author: Guido Rossum

• Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

  Author: Mike Ross

• Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

  Author: Billy Rose

• It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

  Author: Elisabeth Rohm

• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

  Author: James Rogers

• Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.

  Author: Paul Rodriguez

• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Author: Pat Riley

• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Author: Pat Riley

• What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• Every generation needs a new revolution.

  Author: Jeff Rich

• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

  Author: David Ricardo

• What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

  Author: Albert Reynolds

• While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• We need to listen to consumers' needs.

  Author: Sumner Redstone

• We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

  Author: Lee Raymond

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  Author: Man Ray

• If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

  Author: Jef Raskin

• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  Author: Ted Rall

• Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• Even the strongest man needs friends.

  Author: Mario Puzo

• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

  Author: David Price

• As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

  Author: Alan Price

• There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

  Author: Susan Powter

• To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

  Author: Lawrence Powell

• If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

  Author: Jon Porter

• We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

  Author: Jon Porter

• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Author: Jackson Pollock

• Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

  Author: John Poindexter

• But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

  Author: David Plouffe

• A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

  Author: Plato

• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Author: Elizabeth Phelps

• I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

  Author: Ellis Peters

• And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

  Author: John Perkins

• He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

  Author: William Pepper

• The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

  Author: Tim Pawlenty

• I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

  Author: Tom Paulin

• Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

  Author: Carl Paladino

• And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

  Author: Russell Page

• As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  Author: Barack Obama

• If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

  Author: John Oates

• The reform of government needs to continue.

  Author: Jim Nussle

• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

  Author: Gale Norton

• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  Author: Gale Norton

• Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

  Author: Gale Norton

• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  Author: Gale Norton

• One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

  Author: Dudley North

• The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

  Author: Chester Nimitz

• I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

  Author: Bob Ney

• Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

  Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

• Everyone needs some time to themselves.

  Author: Anna Neagle

• No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

  Author: Anna Neagle

• Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

  Author: Sarojini Naidu

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

  Author: George Murray

• There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Author: Iris Murdoch

• In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

  Author: Alice Munro

• A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

  Author: John Muir

• I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

  Author: Tia Mowry

• What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

  Author: Joe Morton

• All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

  Author: George Moore

• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

  Author: George Moore

• There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

  Author: Sun Moon

• My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

  Author: Ron Moody

• Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

  Author: Alfred Montapert

• Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

  Author: Adrian Mitchell

• I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

  Author: Marvin Minsky

• When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

  Author: Anthony Minghella

• My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

  Author: Keith Miller

• We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Author: Henry Miller

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  Author: Gary Miller

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  Author: Edna Millay

• I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.

  Author: Eva Mendes

• The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  Author: Mack McLarty

• It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

  Author: Joel McHale

• Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

  Author: Kent McCord

• Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  Author: Karen McCarthy

• Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

  Author: John Maxwell

• Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  Author: Karl Marx

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Author: Karl Marx

• We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

  Author: Thomas Marshall

• In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.

  Author: Mike Marsh

• Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

  Author: Marc Maron

• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Author: Teena Marie

• Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

  Author: Franz Marc

• People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

  Author: Murray Mann

• When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

  Author: Horace Mann

• Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

  Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

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