Needing Quotes
294 quotes by 264 authors
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Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from…
— Jay Asher
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She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and…
— Susan Sontag
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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a…
— George Orwell
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It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you.…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them, but Cole…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help…
— Sarah Dessen
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Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.
— James Patterson
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Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
— Thomas Merton
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Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
— Billy Graham
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Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.
— Charles Frazier
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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you…
— Jeannette Walls
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Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others…
— Paulo Coelho
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God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to…
— Tea Obreht
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Let me guess,†Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.†I just looked at…
— Sarah Dessen
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by…
— George Orwell
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And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't…
— Ilona Andrews
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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
— C.S. Lewis
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But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you…
— Ayn Rand
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