Needs Quotes - Page 161

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.