Quotes on Needs

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.

The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.