Needs Quotes

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Why do you need two coats when you have only one back?

Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!… Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to; all they need is one reason why they can.

The face of evil is the face of total need.

Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it.

I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. […]

A weakness of this age is our inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds.

It is when we try to grapple with another man’s intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

What one truly needs in life has a value; what one doesn’t need in life has a price.