Quotes on Needs

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

Author: John Ashcroft

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Author: Donovan Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Author: Liberty Bailey

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Author: Roy Barnes

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Author: Roland Barthes

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Author: Tim Bishop

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Author: Kit Bond

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

Author: Barry Bonds

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

Author: Lisa Bonet

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Author: Sarah Breathnach

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Author: Jean Bruyere

A functioning police state needs no police.

Author: William Burroughs

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Author: Tony Campolo

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

Author: Frank Carlucci

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Author: Jimmy Carter

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

Author: Chris Chocola

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Author: Frank Clark

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

Author: Jarvis Cocker

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Author: Doug Coupland

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

Author: Andrew Cuomo

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

Author: Andrew Cuomo

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Author: Roald Dahl

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Author: Moshe Dayan

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

Author: Rene Descartes

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

Author: Jim Diamond

It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

Author: Shelley Duvall

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Author: Meister Eckhart

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Author: Sibel Edmonds

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

Author: Leslie Fiedler

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.

Author: Albert Finney

I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.

Author: Gennifer Flowers

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Author: Miles Franklin

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

Author: Martin Frost

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Author: R. Fuller

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

Author: Jami Gertz

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Author: Hermione Gingold

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

Author: Alberto Gonzales

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

Author: Stephen Gould

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

Author: David Guterson

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Author: Alan Hansen

I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.

Author: Tim Hardaway

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Author: Marvin Harris

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Author: Zahi Hawass

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Author: Jim Henson

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Author: Ben Hogan

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

Author: Tim Holden

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Author: Edward Hopper

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Author: Julia Howe

Everybody needs somebody.

Author: Mahalia Jackson

Who really needs a new album from me?

Author: Elton John

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Author: William Kirby

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Author: Ann Landers

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Author: Anne Lindbergh

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Author: Bill Lipinski

Everybody needs feedback, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying a trainer.

Author: Doug Lowenstein

A star needs all the rest she can get.

Author: Lorna Luft

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

Author: Lydia Lunch

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

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

Author: Karl Marx

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

Author: Mitch McConnell

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

Author: Ewan McGregor

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

Author: Mack McLarty

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

Author: Keith Miller

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

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

Author: George Murray

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Author: Barack Obama

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

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

Author: Jef Raskin

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

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Author: Man Ray

We need to listen to consumers' needs.

Author: Sumner Redstone

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

Author: Oliver Reed

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

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

Author: Paul Rodriguez

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

Author: Elisabeth Rohm

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

Author: Billy Rose

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

Author: Ernest Rutherford

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

Author: Carl Sagan

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

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

Author: Sophocles

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

Author: Warren Spahn

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

Author: Ben Stein

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

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

Author: Billy Sunday

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

Author: Cathy Tempelsman

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

Author: Chuck Todd

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

Author: John Trumbull

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

Author: Alan Turing

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

Author: Walter Ulbricht

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

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

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

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

Author: Tony Wilson