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Need Quotes by Wendell Berry
- If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for…
- The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to…
- We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An…
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
- We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
- We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you…
- Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear /…
- To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
- There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and…
- ...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
- A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social…
- If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
- You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by…
- The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The…
- We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but…
More Need Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson