Needed Quotes · Page 29

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

— Anne Lamott

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

— Rachel Simon

“You are respected till you have something needed by them or something they are jealous of...”

— Ranu Das

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

— James Ellroy

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

— Morgan Freeman

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

— Cole Swindell

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

— Eric Shanteau

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

— Mordechai Vanunu

Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for…

— Robert Reich

This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that,…

— Gwen Stefani

(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to…

— Kathi Appelt

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for…

— Charlie Kaufman

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted…

— Kingsley Amis

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for…

— Richard E. Pattis

She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had…

— Nicholas Evans

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

— Erykah Badu

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in…

— Alex Haley

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to…

— Steven Wright

I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at…

— William A. Rusher

I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not…

— Elbert Hubbard

When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I…

— Jeanette Winterson

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it…

— Colin Hanks

Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control.…

— Cecelia Ahern

“He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.”

— Alice Clayton

We needed the support of our parents because we had no car, no money.

— Bill Kaulitz

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

— Rosanne Cash

How much does one person need to live? I've never needed or wanted that much.

— Pernell Roberts

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

— Denis Leary

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

— Oswald Chambers

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

— Jonas Blue

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before…we needed a hit.

— Lauren Zalaznick

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.

— Justin Gatlin

Mourinho was always very strong for his players, and you needed to deliver for him. For me, it was good.

— Arjen Robben

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

— Jerry Spinelli