Needed Quotes
3444 quotes by 2533 authors
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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
— John Gray
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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and…
— Piers Anthony
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Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name.…
— Michael Grant
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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree…
— Deb Caletti
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You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.†“Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
— William Gibson
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Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as…
— Dalai Lama
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He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved…
— Adrienne Rich
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that…
— E. M. Forster
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That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child,…
— Orson Scott Card
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And I have Julian. I found him, and he followed me. I reach out in the half dark, wordlessly, and find his hands. We interlace…
— Lauren Oliver
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No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert…
— Charles Spurgeon
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You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love…
— Francine Rivers
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She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching…
— Suzanne Collins
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People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.
— Francesca Lia Block
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