Needed Quotes · Page 34

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

— Denis Leary

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

— Christian Bauman

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

— Oswald Chambers

I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us…

— Edgerrin James

Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and…

— Jennifer Rardin

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough:…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there…

— Jill Stein

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down…

— Heather Brewer

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land.…

— Mario Van Peebles

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less…

— David Rolf

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from…

— Lisa Kleypas

Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not…

— Rachel Caine

I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed…

— Philip Kotler

I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we…

— Nikki Haley

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The…

— Freeman Dyson

Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger…

— Rick Riordan

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by…

— Adyashanti

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth.…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Cole Swindell

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

— Mordechai Vanunu

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

— Eric Shanteau

“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

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

— Pernell Roberts

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

— Rosanne Cash

People always feel the need to give their opinion, even when it's not needed. Shut up!..

— Anonymous

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

— Charles Spurgeon

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

— Bobby Jones

If you were not there to be with me when I needed you, then you don't deserve to be with me at…

— MubinAMunir

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

— Mark Burnett

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

— Marv Albert

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

— Nicole Mones

...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