Needs Quotes - Page 88

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health.

I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.

Bought a pair of boots the other day, and they was some silicone gel in there. Big red letters said, "Do not eat." Do they really need that stuff in them boots? Is there really some dude opening a pair of boots goin', "Boy, look at them boots. What the hell? I better eat that. I don't know what the hell that is."

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.

What we need now is endless courage.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

You have to know what you need. You need someone who's going to really push you hard. But they also need to understand that, emotionally, sometimes today's not the day to push so hard.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.

We need the poor as much as they need us.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.